Price: US$144.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Library accoutrements in the usual locales; front flyleaf removed; interior pages absent any extraneous marks. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.05
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Raymond Carver. Will you please be quiet, please?: The stories of Raymond Carver. McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Price: US$267.00 + shipping
Description: 0070101930 Good. May have some wear, markings, or minor cosmetic damage.
Seller: Lost Books, AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE? The stories of Raymond Carver. McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Rays first book with a major publisher. A near fine copy with name whited out on front board which is hidden by front flap of dust wrapper. In a very good plus dust jacket with light edge wear.
Seller: Rob Warren Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$370.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976. 1st edition. 249pp. Good book. Good dust jacket. Dust Jacket edges a bit frayed. In polypropylene bag. (short stories, social life and customs) Inquire if you need further information.
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$373.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. Will you please be quiet, please: The stories of Raymond Carver. McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Price: US$436.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good
Seller: dsmbooks, liverpool, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed boards. Carver's first trade book, a collection of stories that heralded a new perspective on the role of Everyman in modern fiction. Very close to Fine in a lightly soiled but still Near Fine dustwrapper with a short closed tear at the rear flap fold
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$570.71 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$589.19 + shipping
Condition: New
Description:
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$589.39 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$605.62 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 249 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket, preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding clamshell box. First edition. Slightest of rubbing to the very top and bottom edges of the spine; else a fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket which is otherwise very near fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$840.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing. SIGNED, without inscription, by Raymond Carver on the front endpaper. Near fine in a very good dustjcket with some discoloration. Not pricecclipped and no markings.
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE?. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1976.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo; beige and aquamarine cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine and stamped in blind on front panel; light blue topstain; dustjacket; 249pp. Some trivial rubbing to lower board edges, else Fine, with the topstain notably bright and unfaded. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), still bright white, with light rubbing along joints and extremities; Near Fine. Carver's breathrough book of short stories, and his first to be issued by a major publisher. A choice copy of an important title.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$899.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Condition: Fine, a like-new, clean, unmarked copy. Dust jacket Condition: Fine, like-new with unclipped price.The book is in exceptional condition. The binding is tight with no leaning. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A stunning copy of this first edition. Dust jacket is protected by a removable clear-plastic sleeve.
Seller: Devoted toBooks, Pleasant Hill, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$937.50 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed boards. Carver's first trade book, a collection of stories that heralded a new perspective on the role of Everyman in modern fiction. A tight, crisp, Fine copy in a close to Fine bright white dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the head and just a trace of the inevitable soiling
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1050.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed, "October 1, 1977, Arcata, Raymond Carver." Book pages are immaculate, tightly bound. Outer wear: a little rubbing to lower spine. DJ looks good in new lined mylar protector; has ever so slight browning of the white paper, one short (1/2 inch) closed tear at upper edge front panel, quite slight wear otherwise. The blue publisher's dye on the upper page edges has a slight bit of bleed to text face, first few pages; a minor flaw only.
Seller: Tin Can Mailman, Arcata, Arcata, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition book in very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Tan boards with blue spine. Title of book is blind-stamped on front panel. Orange lettering on spine. Upper external page edges are light blue tinted. Corners and a bit of the edges at head and tail of board spine are rubbed but not fraying. Upper fore-edge corner tips have small bumps. Light foxing on external page edges. Previous owner's name/date on front paste-down, else book is internally clean. Text block is tight and appears to be unread. Dust jacket is lightly soiled overall, typical of white backgrounds in older books. Folds are creased and darkened, more so on the fore-edge folds. Back panel has a 1/4" closed vertical tear to the right of center along the lower edge with adjacent shallow diagonal crease. The reverse side has a small tape repair from a previous owner. Edges and corners at head and tail of jacket spine and fore-edge corner are creased and rubbed but with very minimal loss. Not price clipped. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. SIGNED by Raymond Carver on title page. Very close to fine in a like dust jacket. (249pp. ) (5 1/2" X 8 1/4") (Quite faint sticker ghost on orange-tinted front end-paper. Trivial trace of rubbing at bottom edge. Tiny spot of soiling at base of spine on jacket. ) Lovely copy of the author's breakthrough collection of stories. ; 5 1/2" X 8 1/4"; 249 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$6250.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed boards. Carver's first trade book, a collection of stories that heralded a new perspective on the role of Everyman in modern fiction. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Carver to poet Michael Waters and his wife on the front endpaper: "For Michael and Robin/with love/and in friendship/Ray/Salisbury/4-10-80." Waters and Carver were friends. In his collection DARLING VULGARITY (2006), Waters has a poem about a visit by Carver to his home in Salisbury [Maryland] where Carver mistakenly lets their housebound dog out, and the two writers have to scour the neighborhood to retrieve him. Small, faint stain to bulked text fore-edge. About Fine in a close to Fine, bright white dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.