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Title: Crucifix in a Deathhand - Publisher's personal copy Author: Bukowski, Charles Place: [New Orleans] / New York Publisher: A Loujon Press Award Book / Lyle Stuart Inc. Date: [1965] Description: 101 pp. With preliminary leaves of various colors and differing widths. Illustrations by Noel Rockmore 12¼x8¼, original pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, pages and covers printed on heavy stock paper, original printed orange paper band, laid in. One of 3100 copies hand printed on hand-made paper, designed, printed and bound by Louise and Jon Webb. First Edition. Publisher's copy, with an amazing and personal 23-line presentation inscription (filling the entire sheet and is inside a squiggly line all the way around and connected to a beer bottle) signed by Charles Bukowski, all in silver-metallic ink on blue-colored leaf facing colophon: “For Jon and Louise Webb - you know how I feel on the book, I'm sure, and I remember the days and nights down there too - Gypsy's cooking, the beer, the walks with the dogs, the race riots on T.V., the crazy professors arguing about degrees, the beautiful women on sidewalks who stared right at me, the 2 bad nights, the bars, the corners; and the talk, the final easiness, the bulletholes; the old press, the paper stacked high, the signings, Minnie’s place, the racetrack, the book the book, the book!!! Love, Buk – Charles Bukowski. 5-3-65.” Gypsy Lou series #2. Dorbin A6; Krumhansl 15. Lot Amendments Condition: Minor edge wear and rubbing to exterior, fore-edge corners bumped; paper band flattened and laid in; else near fine. Item number: 168616