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Title: It Catches My Heart in its Hands: New & Selected Poems 1955-1963 Author: Bukowski, Charles Place: [New Orleans] Publisher: Loujon Press Date: 1963 Description: 97 pp. Introduction by John William Corrington. With preliminary leaves of various colors and differing widths. 10x7, hand-bound in stiff pictorial wrappers with decorative cork-lined front cover, attached jacket with tissue sheet tipped-on (as issued), and pictorial flap over fore-edge around from rear. One of 777 copies on different colored and sized hand-printed paper. First Edition. Signed by Charles Bukowski in silver ink, dated 8-3-63, on the front free endpaper. Considered by many to be Bukowski's most beautifully produced book. Copyright page states the book was first printed October 1963, which is after Bukowski’s signature date. Publisher's "Dec 18 1963" rubberstamped on inside front cover. Gypsy Lou Series No. 1, Loujon Press Award Book; Dorbin A5; Krumhansl 12; Fogel 10. Lot Amendments Condition: A "?" in blue ink about 1¼" tall on upper cork cover (in unknown hand), slight edge wear; about fine. Item number: 174471