Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

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Lot 16
  • 16

Carver, Raymond

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Will You Please be Quiet, Please? New York: McGraw Hill, 1976
  • paper, ink, cloth
8vo Original orange-lettered cloth; a stray light spot to fore-edge else fine. Original dust jacket; very fine. Folding case.

Catalogue Note

first edition, inscribed with the author's best wishes on the orange endpaper and signed again on the title. A lovely copy of Carver's short fiction debut of  "Post-Alcoholic Blue-Collar Minimalist Hyperrealism" (John Barth) and the most important American short story collection of the 1970s.