Sylph Publications

CHARLES BOWDEN:
A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
1962-2000

Compiled by
W. E. Bartholomew

An annotated descriptive bibliography of the works of Tucson, Arizona author Charles Bowden. This work is intended for collectors and scholars. Sections include: 

• Books

• Contributions to books and periodicals

• Biographical and critical works

• Reviews of books

• Audio and visual works

• Foreign translations

Annotations chronicle Charles Bowden's development as a writer and lend context to his work.

Cloth Edition 
xvi, 235pp., illustrated (May 2001)
ISBN: 0-9673004-2-8

Signed by Charles Bowden in black ink. Bound in gold Brillianta with hand-made marbled endpapers. Cover label by Ralph Steadman. Covered with printed clear acetate dust jacket.
 
Edition: 26 lettered copies.
Price: $75 [SOLD OUT]

Paperback Edition, 
xvi, 235pp., illustrated (May 2001)
ISBN: 0-9673004-3-6

Edition: 100 numbered copies in wrappers.
Price: $18

Second cloth printing,
xvi, 235pp., illustrated (Sep 2003)
ISBN:  0-9673004-8-7

Edition: 30 copies in full brown cloth
Price:  $25

WHY I WROTE THIS
by Charles Bowden

Sylph Broadside Number 1

A folded broadside silkscreen printed  in two colors (blue and magenta) on Rising Stonehenge (Tan) paper.  Inside contains a printed handwritten excerpt and a color photograph of the author's writing house.  Housed in blue linen envelope with cover label.  Printed colophon page laid in.  Each copy is signed in pencil and personally wine stained by Charles Bowden.

Size:  9" x 12" (landscape)
Edition: 50 numbered copies signed by the author in pencil

Price: $35 
 

VERBATIM: 
A CONVERSATION WITH CHARLES BOWDEN

(front)                                            (rear)

Sylph Chapbook Number 7

Cloth Edition, vi, 58 pp., illustrated (December 2004)
ISBN:  0-9760742-2-2

Includes black and white photographs by Steven M. Johnson.  Quarter-bound in green-gray Asahi cloth with pictorial front and rear panels with light blue leather spine label stamped in silver.  Signed by Charles Bowden and Mona Mort.  Clamshell boxed edition includes hand-made marbled endpapers and the original signed silkscreen/collage print "Lounge Notes" laid into a folder.   

The transcription of an interview with Charles Bowden in February 1998 in Tucson, Arizona.  The unedited interview covers various topics including Princess Di,  publishing, sex in plants, pornography, writing, Edward Abbey, and more. With accompanying photographs,  readers gain a sense of what it is like to talk to Charles Bowden.

Edition:  60 copies (total)
Price:  $225 (10 copy edition in box) 
               $75 (50 copy numbered edition)

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