The Curtains Are Waving and People Walk Through The Afternoon Here and In Berlin and In New York City and In Mexico [Limited Edition, Signed by Bukowski, with additional inscription to John Thomas Idlet]

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. Very Good. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. First Edition, Limited to 125 signed copies  of which this is no. 51. Square quarto; printed stitched wraps; [8]pp. Light wear along bottom edges with adjacent spotting and discoloration, bleeding ever so slightly to bottom edge of text. Binding sound and pages else unmarked; Very Good. Signed by Bukowski on limitation page and additionally inscribed and signed on front free endpaper to his friend John Thomas Idlet with inscription, "For John Thomas and his Rosie and his reels of tape and his criticism and his critical roomer down there; and, so, at least the sun is not critical and the doornobs [sic] and the beercans and the shoelaces. It seems everybody's got a giant bitch going, John. At least most of yours are logical. hail, hail, Buk Nov 5, 1967."

Inscribed to John Thomas Idlet, whom Bukowski called "the best unread poet in America." The pair were close at the time of this writing, and Bukowski's biographer Neeli Cherkovski said of Idlet that he "was one of the few persons who could intimidate Bukowski even before Bukowski came into the room." A remarkable association. 

Krumhansl 26; Elaine Woo, "John Thomas, 71; Member of Venice Beats." Los Angeles Times: April 7, 2002.