Women by Charles Bukowski [FIRST EDITION / NINTH PRINTING] 1984

Women by Charles Bukowski 

FIRST EDITION / NINTH PRINTING [1984] BLACK SPARROW PRESS

Like a majority of Bukowski's works, this book was published simultaneously in both Hardcover and Softcover first editions by Black Sparrow Press.  

Ninth printing of this trade paperback First Edition printed by the Black Sparrow Press in 1984.

Reading copy.  Cover is in nice shape with a few spots of discoloration but nothing major.   

There are two stains on text block, one of which has affected about 10 pgs [117-128, see last few photos] Pg 119 shows the worst of it.   With that exception, the rest of the book reads like new.  

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.

With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.