WHAT MATTERS MOST IS HOW WELL YOU WALK THROUGH THE FIRE

First hardback edition (one of 750 copies), issued simultaneously with paperback and signed editions. Quarter black cloth over boards illustrated with a photograph by Linda Lee Bukowksi. Lettered in red and black to a paper label affixed to the spine. In the publisher's glassine wrapper. Crimson endpapers. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Uncommon.

A volume of poems written between 1970 and 1990 drawn from an archive Bukowski left to be published after his death. Printed in October 1999 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, 750 hardback copies (as here), and 426 handbound copies each with an original serigraph print by Charles Bukowski.