Bukowski, Charles. THE WEDDING.

San Pedro: Brown Buddha Books, 1986. First edition. 4to. With eleven tipped-in photographs by Michael Montfort. One of 40 numbered copies signed by Bukowski and Montfort (the entire edition). Issued to celebrate the marriage of Bukowski and Linda Lee Beighle. This copy has the bride's surname misspelled on the colophon page. A corrected colophon appears in some but not all of the copies with the error. One of the book's photographs -- a portrait of Linda kneeling in front of Bukowski and mending his trousers -- was deemed perversely suggestive by the bride and most of the edition bears a replacement photograph that shows the couple dancing. Laid into this copy are two original photographs, the first of which depicts Bukowski smiling ruefully as if he knew his leukemia was in its late stages, the second a color photograph of his headstone, beside which a single rose has been placed. Fine. Hardcover.