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Presenting the first book published under our new imprint, Chance Press Research: Abel Debritto’s Too Powerful a Thing to Reject: Charles Bukowski’s Transition Years, 1945-1957. While a book on Bukowski, perhaps the most widely-published and prolific poet of the 20th Century, doesn’t immediately align with Chance Press Research’s goals of exploring forgotten or underappreciated literature, the early years of his writing career are almost universally misunderstood, due in no small part to Bukowski’s own self-aggrandizing myths (especially his “ten year drunk,” during which he supposedly did no writing at all). Debritto, a noted Bukowski scholar and bibliographer, has done more research than many knew was possible on this subject, and he delivers an authoritative account of Bukowski’s years of transition from literary obscurity to literary celebrity. Excerpted and adapted from his Doctoral dissertation on Bukowski, this material is made available to the non-academic public for the first time in this release.
Ordering
The first edition is limited to 90 copies for sale and 19 copies for the publisher’s and author’s use.
Trade Edition (50 copies): $7.00 (includes shipping)
Signed Trade Edition (25 copies): $14.00 (includes shipping)
Signed Hardcover Edition (15 copies): $28.00 (includes shipping)
To order, please head over to our ordering page.
Edition Details:
Too Powerful a Thing to Reject is a hand-sewn single-signature chapbook. The trade edition covers are Gocco-printed onto cardstock wrappers, and the text is on Hammermill heavyweight color copy paper. The endpapers are laser printed on bright white vellum, and the signed trade edition copies feature rounded corners and heavier-gauge black Irish linen thread.
The deluxe edition is hand-bound in boards covered in Italian Canapetta bookcloth, with a Canson Montval Gocco-printed cover pastedown. Interior pastedowns are on Fabriano Murillo, and binding is sewn with black Irish linen thread.
*Note: all signed copies (signed trade and signed hardcover) are signed on Gocco-printed bookplates tipped inside the rear cover. The plates are printed on two stocks – Canson Montval for the trade copies, and Arches 88 for the hardcover copies.