BUKOWSKI, Charles. Shakespeare Never Did This.

(San Francisco, CA): City Lights Books, 1979.  First edition.  Softcover.  20.5cm by 25.5cm.  Unpaginated.  An account of Charles Bukowski’s 1978 European trip. In 1978 Europe was new territory for Bukowski holding the secrets of his own personal ancestry and origins. En route to his birthplace in Andernach, Germany, he is trailed by celebrity-hunters and paparazzi, appears drunk on French television, blows a small fortune at a Dusseldorf racetrack and stands in a Cologne Cathedral musing about life and death.  Illustrated with photographic plates by Michael Montfort.  A good copy in wrappers, some spotting, browning to endpapers.