Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Charles Bukowski : an American outsider
Image not available
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Image not available
Rare Books
This collection contains periodicals with content written by or about the poet, novelist, and short-story writer Charles Bukowski, covering a span from 1941 to 2009, and is a subset of the Charles Bukowski Printed Material Collection. The materials consist of nearly 400 issues of 248 periodicals that contain poems, short stories, interviews, excerpts, and drawings by Bukowski, as well as photographs of him, and articles or interviews about him, or in which he is mentioned. The materials span from Bukowski's first published short story "'Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip,"' which was published in Story magazine in 1941, to obituaries and articles about Bukowski and posthumously printed poems and short stories that appeared after his death in 1994. The items range from small literary journals to large weekly news magazines published in a number of countries and in a variety of languages including English, German, and French. Approximately 90 periodical titles received with this collection are not included in this finding aid but are instead cataloged individually; they may be retrieved by doing a keyword search for "Charles Bukowski Printed Material Collection" in the Huntington Library Online Catalog: catalog.huntington.org. The collection inventory below contains entries listing the periodical title, issue number, date, publisher and publisher location, language (if other than English), the titles, page numbers, and authors of the Bukowski-related pieces, and a short description of the content.
602814
Image not available
Rare Books
Content: (2 copies; a journal dedicated to articles about Bukowski, this issue also assembled the obituaries of Bukowski printed in German newspapers)
602814
Image not available
Manuscripts
Two 60-minute U-matic videotapes containing original footage of Charles Bukowski's penultimate poetry reading at the Viking Inn in Vancouver, British Columbia, on October 12, 1979. Film producer Dennis B. Del Torre shot the footage.
mssHM 83861
Image not available
Rare Books
Content: (numerous Bukowski illustrations, poems and articles about Bukowski, a questionnaire filled out by Bukowski, a black and white photograph of him)
602814