First Hardcover Trade Edition — Black Sparrow Press
A sharp, near‑fine example of Bukowski’s final lifetime poetry collection—an essential late‑career volume gathering the bars, racetracks, cheap rooms, and hard-won wisdom of his last decades. Published in 1992, The Last Night of the Earth Poems is widely regarded as one of Bukowski’s strongest late works, a summation of the voice that shaped underground American poetry.
 
Bibliographic Details
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992
First Hardcover Trade Edition
Large 8vo (approx. 9 x 6 inches)
Illustrated paper over cloth boards with orange and black titling
Original decorated paper boards by Earle Grey
Printed spine label; grey‑green endpapers
Author portrait by Michael Montfort at rear
Publisher’s original acetate jacket with ISBN label on rear
 
Condition: Near Fine - Boards clean and bright with only a slight spine lean, book has been over‑opened at the second page of the Table of Contents, but binding remains sound, Interior is clean, bright, and unmarked, Acetate jacket: Near fine or better, crisp and clear, with the publisher’s paper ISBN label intact
 
Why This Edition Matters
This 1992 hardcover marks the final poetry collection published during Bukowski’s lifetime, making it a cornerstone for collectors of Black Sparrow Press and modern American poetry. A defining late‑period work—intimate, unsentimental, and unmistakably Bukowski.