BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-1994). There’s No Business. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984.
Small 4to. Illustrations by R. Crumb. Original patterned cloth-backed illustrated boards, printed spine label, hand-bound by Earle Gray; acetate jacket. Laid in with a broadside prospectus (Black Sparrow Press Broadside/Flyer No. 12; Not in Krumhansl).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 334 of 426 copies SIGNED BY BOTH BUKOWSKI AND CRUMB on the limitation as issued.
[With:] BUKOWSKI. Bring Me Your Love. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Small 4to. Illustrations by R. Crumb. Original black cloth-backed pictorial boards, printed spine label; acetate jacket. Second printing, SIGNED BY BUKOWSKI on the title-page.
Crumb, now considered the greatest of the underground artists, traces his strange and almost stream-of-consciousness cartoon style to his first LSD trip in 1964 which he described in the Paris Review as a “road-to-Damascus experience”. Krumhansl 87c.