{"product_id":"erections-ejaculations-exhibitions-and-general-tales-of-ordinary-madness","title":"Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eB\u003cspan\u003eUKOWSKI, Charles; Gail CHIARRELLO [Ed.]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eErections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCalifornia: City Lights Books, 1972 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e8vo., paperback glued card covers, the front showing a black and white photograph of Bukowski taken by Brad Darby; pp. [viii], 478, [ii]; near-fine, a touch rubbed to the outer edges of covers and along spine; with the odd crease; glue just starting to show at front gutter; internally clean. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eSixth printing, \u003cstrong\u003edoodled in black ink by Bukowski\u003c\/strong\u003e with a rough depiction of his \"little man\" drawing to the front free endpaper below an insightful ‘Fuck it!’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eA collection of pieces originally published in \u003cem\u003eOpen City, Nola Express, Knight, Adam, Adam Reader, Pix, The Berkeley Barb \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eEver-green Review. \u003c\/em\u003eThe book is dedicated to Linda King “who brought it to me and who will take it away”. King was Bukowski’s girlfriend in the early 1970s, and it was a relationship which often turned volatile. On one occasion, the pair stayed at the City Lights apartment in San Francisco, after reading at the City Lights Poets Theater. The pair split in 1975 after King, angry at Bukowski’s frequent infidelities, threw his typewriter out of an open window. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eLawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of the City Lights Bookstore, was one of the first to recognise Bukowski as a short story writer and this collection, published by his press, was the first collection of Bukowski’s stories to be published together. The book later appeared in two volumes, \u003cem\u003eTales of Ordinary Madness \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Most Beautiful Woman in Town \u003c\/em\u003e(1983). \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55917392494916,"sku":"SQ8369124","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/471Foldthecornerbooks02099.jpg?v=1776872948","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/erections-ejaculations-exhibitions-and-general-tales-of-ordinary-madness","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}