BETTING ON THE MUSE

First hardback edition (one of 1000 copies). Quarter grey cloth over boards illustrated with a photograph by Michael Montfort. Lettered in black to a label affixed to the spine. In the publisher's glassine wrapper. Orange endpapers. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout.

A posthumously published volume of poems drawn from an archive Bukowski left to be published after his death. Printed March 1996 in Santa Barbara and Ann Arbor by Mackintosh Typography and Edwards Brothers Inc. Design by Barbara Martin. The first edition was issued simultaneously in paper wrappers, 1000 hardback copies, and 226 handbound copies.