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Charles Bukowski items at auction, 15 March 2012, at PBA Galleries. Signed photos, manuscripts, art, books and even the recording above are up on the block. About the recording (est. $700-1000):

In 1966, Santa Monica poet and bookstore owner Steve Richmond dropped off a tape recorder and some blank tapes at Charles Bukowski’s Hollywood apartment. Bukowski recorded 90 minutes of his poetry onto two reel-to-reel tapes and gave them to back to Richmond. In 1977, Steve Richmond finally issued a 2-record LP set of this recording session - “90 Minutes in Hell.” The records were released under Richmond’s bookstore name, Earth Books, in Santa Monica. In approximately 1990, Steve Richmond sold the two original tapes to Water Row Books and the idea came up to re-issue the LP set. The tapes’ boxes were labeled at Water Row Books and were sent to the professional recording studio, Blue Jay Studios, in Carlisle, Massachusetts, to validate the contents and condition of the tapes. These master tapes were found to be in good condition to use to re-issue the LP set but plans for the reissue fell through and these tapes resided in the Water Row warehouse for over twenty years. There are two individual reel-to-reel tapes, each contained in a separate white generic box. One box has the notation “Side 1 & 2” and the other box has “Side 3 & 4” - both notations written by Steve Richmond. On each box there is also a label and stamp with Water Row Books address information and a written label: Charles Bukowski 90 Minutes in Hell #1 and Charles Bukowski 90 Minutes in Hell #2.

(Source: booktryst.com)

From GalleyCat:

The Authors for Japan site just launched, as writers and publishing professionals have donated some great prizes to raise funds for earthquake and tsunami relief in Japan.

Donated prizes include: “sex scene mentoring for your novel,” a “first chapter or short story critique,” and a set of “four-week telephone mentoring sessions.” Writers around the world have joined together to support Japan. Over the weekend, author Maureen Johnson raised more than $14,000 in Shelterbox donations for Japan.

Here’s how the auction works: “We’ll be putting posts up throughout the day so you can get an idea of the amazing items available before bidding opens. The auction will open at 8am GMT tomorrow (Tuesday 15th March) and close at 8pm on Sunday (the 20th). To bid, you’ll need to leave a comment (with the amount of your bid) in the relevant comments box. At the conclusion of the auction the bidder who has made the highest bid in UK Pounds will be deemed the winner.”

Lost, Unpublished Dr. Seuss Manuscript Surfaces [BOOKTRYST]

“Nineteen handwritten pages, the first seven of which are completely in the hand of Dr. Seuss. The remaining pages are mostly written by an assistant with corrections and doodles by Dr. Seuss, some taped on.” [Nate D. Sanders Auctions]

$30–50,000,000 on November 10th, 2010.

Unlike McDonald’s french fries, vegetarians know there’s beef in this soup.

I’ll know what to use if my agent gets behind on my royalties — especially since I’ll already be $20-$30,000 in the hole.

$106,500,000.00

Mark Twain’s unpublished manuscript, “A Family Sketch” will be auctioned off in June.  The story was a tribute to his daughter who passed away at the age of 24 from spinal meningitis.

The 64-page, handwritten document is among a trove of 200 personal letters, manuscripts and photographs of Mark Twain — the pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens — going on sale June 17 at Sotheby’s New York.

The world needs you, Andy.