There's No Business

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 426 numbered and signed by R. Crumb and Charles Bukowski. The present copy is number 155. 17 pages illustrated by R. Crumb. The story of Manny, who was a comedian working at one of the lounges at the Sunset Hotel in Vegas for four decades but never hit it big. Bukowski states "still he didn't have a pot to puke in". His career is sinking, what can he do? A fine copy bound in 1/4 purple cloth with black dots, over pink pictorial paper covered boards depicting Manny in a blue-green suit with letters and decorations in orange, yellow and purple, orange endpapers, pink paper (truncated) spine label lettered in black, in original clear acetate jacket. (Inventory #: 023382)