Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, (1994). First edition, 29th printing. 8vo. 196 pp. Original baby blue paper boards over black cloth, spine label in blue and navy, in original acetate dust-jacket. Acetate jacket shows light edge wear with surface scratches to gloss, rubbing, mild fading. Book is tight, firm but with mild forward lean. Interior clean and unmarked. Page edges lightly toned. Front free end paper excised. Scarce in hardcover.

Dust Jacket: Acetate: Very Good

Hardcover: Very Good

“Post Office is the first novel written by American writer Charles Bukowski, published in 1971. The book is an autobiographical memoir of Bukowski's years working at the United States Postal Service. The film rights to the novel were sold in the early 1970s, but a film has not been made thus far. In Los Angeles, California, down-and-out barfly Henry Chinaski becomes a substitute mail carrier; he quits for a while and lives on his winnings at the race track, then becomes a mail clerk. Chinaski drifts from place to place, surviving through booze and women, with his biting sense of humor and a cynical view of the world.”