1960-1965
Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail (1960 hearse Press, California)
- 1st book. Stapled
Poems and Drawings (1962)
Longshot Pomes for Broke Players (1962)
Run with the Hunted (1962)
It Catches My Heart in its Hands : New & Selected Poems 1955-1963
(1963 Loujon Press)
- 777 signed
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (1965 Literary Times-Cyfoeth, Chicago)
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965 Mimeo Press)
Crucifix in a Death Hand : New Poems 1963-5 (1965 Lyle Stuart NY)
1966-1970
All the Assholes in the World and Mine (1966 Open Skull Press)
The Genius of the Crowd (1966)
2 By Bukowski (1967)
The Curtains are Waving (1967 BSP)
At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968 BSP)
The Day it Snowed in LA (1968 Sutton West)
- 200 signed
Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Storey Window (1968 Poetry & Change, Berkeley)
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
A Bukowski Sampler (1969)
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969 BSP)
- 250 numbered & signed
1971-1975
Fire Station (1970)
Another Academy (1970 BSP)
Post Office : A Novel (1971 BSP)
(1974 London Magazine Editions)
- 1st Novel
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972 BSP)
(Ed)
Anthology of LA poets (1972 Laugh Literary / Red Hill, LA)
- 64pp booklet
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972 City Lights)
[Filmed in 1981 as "Tales of Ordinary Madness"]
Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems (1972)
While the Music Played (1973)
South of No North : Stories of the Buried Life (1973 BSP)
- 300 signed
Love Poem to Marina (1973 BSP)
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (1974 BSP)
Africa, Paris, Greece (1975 Black Sparrow)
Factotum (1975 BSP)
(1981 W H Allen)
1976-1980
Scarlet (1976)
Tough Company & The Last Poem in A New Year's Greeting
(1976 Black Sparrow)
- with Diane Wakoski
Maybe Tomorrow (1977)
Love is a Dog From Hell : Poems 1974-1977 (1977 BSP)
What They Want (1977)
- folded sheet
A Note Upon a Workshop Instructor ... (1978)
- broadside
You Kissed Lilly (1978)
We'll Take Them (1978)
Women (1978)
Shakespeare Never Did This (1979 City Lights)
Play the Piano Drunk like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
(1979 BSP)
A Love Poem (1979 Black Sparrow)
1981-1985
Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981 BSP)
- 350 signed
Ham on Rye (1982 BSP)
- 750 of which 350 signed
The Last Generation (1982 BSP)
Horsemeat (1982 BSP)
Sparks (1983)
- 226 numbered
Bring me Your Love (1983)
Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip (1983 Grenfell Press for Blackrose Editions)
Hot Water Music (1983 BSP)
Barfly : The Continuing Saga of Henry Chinaski (1984 The Paget Press)
[Filmed in 1987]
There's No Business (1984 BSP)
- 426. Robert Crumb
War All the Time : Poems 1981-1984 (1984 BSP)
Alone in a Time of Armies (1985 Black Sparrow Press)
AFTER 1986
You Get so Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense (1986 BSP)
The Day it Snowed in LA (1986 Paget Press, Santa Barbara)
- 200 signed
The Movie "Barfly" (1987 BSP)
- 566 signed
Luck (1987 BSP)
- 226 signed
The Movie Critics (1988 BSP)
Beautiful and Other Long Poems (1988 Stockton)
The Roominghouse Madrigals : Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (1988 BSP)
Hollywood (1989 BSP)
- 500 signed
Septugenarian Stew : 70 Stories and Poems (1990 BSP)
- 500 signed
In the Morning and at Night and in Between (1991 Black Sparrow)
- 26 signed
In the Shadow of the Rose (1991 BSP)
- 26 signed & lettered
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992 BSP)
Run with the Hunted : A Charles Bukowski Reader (1993 Harper Collins)
- 326 signed
Screams from the Balcony (1993)
- 600 signed
Those Marvellous Lunches (1993 Black Sparrow)
- 26 signed
Pulp : A Novel (1994)
READING
Howard Sounes : Charles Bukowski - Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
(Ed)
Howard Sounes : Bukowski in Pictures (2000 Rebel Inc.,
Edinburgh £20)