{"product_id":"to-2026-036","title":"Those Marvelous Lunches (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBUKOWSKI, Charles.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThose Marvelous Lunches.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIGNED, NUMBERED #190 OF 226 — WITH THE SOFTCOVER COMPANION.\u003c\/strong\u003e Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, January 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1993 Black Sparrow Press New Year's Greeting, here in two issue states: the numbered hardcover, limited to 226 hand-bound copies signed by Bukowski on the colophon, this being copy #190; together with a fine copy of the softcover trade edition in matching cream-and-shooting-star wrappers. Small octavo, approximately 7.5 × 4.5 inches. The hardcover in cream cloth spine over illustrated paper-covered boards in cream, silver, and gold; the softcover in the identical illustrated wrappers. Both copies fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title poem returns him to the schoolyards of his Los Angeles boyhood — the paper-bag lunch, the daily humiliation of being poor among classmates — and closes on a note of plain tenderness that sits oddly and powerfully against the public Bukowski. It is the kind of poem he had earned the right to write only at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-036\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bukowski, Charles","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459951677601,"sku":"TO-2026-036","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-036_01.jpg?v=1785801700","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-036","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}