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Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$42.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tear in the dust jacket at the back bottom edge. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.
Seller: BookResQ., West Valley City, UT, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$65.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In Used Condition
Seller: Byrd Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$72.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About-Lov. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust jacket missing. Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Foxing on egdes of page block. Shelf wear and fading to top and bottom of spine, worn corners. All pages are intact and unmarked, binding is tight. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.05
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$89.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$89.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library.
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$89.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$89.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond (Author). What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book has mild rubbing to covers with fading to edge areas, a prolonged gift inscription to front endpage, mild wear to edges and corners. otherwise in very good condition, strong binding, bright pages with unmarked text; some cosmetic/aging wear but an overall sturdy copy with clean interiors. Dust jacket has light rubbing, mild wear to edges and corners with small tears and scuffs, clipped price to front flap top corner. in very good condition, now in archival cover.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$110.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Used
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$134.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any).
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$141.53 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$142.77 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$142.79 + shipping
Condition: New
Description:
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$143.17 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.8
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$143.56 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$143.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good reading copy. May contain markings or be a withdrawn library copy.
Seller: PAPER CAVALIER UK, London, United Kingdom
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$144.07 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Buy for Great customer experience
Seller: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first edition. Edges show some faint fading, a few tiny spots of foxing at outside top edge of pages. otherwise a very nice copy overall, clean and attractive, with a tight binding and clean pages. Dust jacket has some light to modest rubbing, very light wear to corners. otherwise bright and clean, now protected in an archival cover. Photos on request.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spotting to page edges. No other markings. Small tears to top edge of dust jacket, $9.95 on the front flap. Dust jacket in a protective cover. Stated First Edition.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
CARVER, Raymond. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$218.80 + shipping
Description: First Printing of Carver's second major collection of short fiction and his first book to go into further printings. Included is the story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film EVERYTHING MUST GO. This copy with an interesting provenance with the SIGNATURE of Canadian critic and short story writer John Metcalf dated Nov. 1982 on the front endpaper and the SIGNATURE of novelist Leon Rooke on the following blank. John Metcalf is a long-time critic of Canadian cultural and educational inadequacies and published KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS in 1982 to showcase this frustration. Leon Rooke, a Canadian novelist born in North Carolina, has written many books including LAST ONE HOME SLEEPS IN THE YELLOW BED. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($9.95). Quarter blue cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Possibly the best collection of Carver stories. Includes the much anthologized "Gazebo," "Little Things," and the titular "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
CARVER, RAYMOND. What we Talk About When we Talk About Love. Alfred Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Gilt lettered quarter blue cloth over light blue paper boards. Wrapped in decorative dust jacket. Slight fade to top left edge of dj and top half inch of the book. Otherwise a near fine copy of Carver well received book of stories. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$231.30 + shipping
Description: First Printing of Carver's second major collection of short fiction and his first book to go into further printings. Included is the story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film EVERYTHING MUST GO. This copy with an interesting provenance with the SIGNATURE of poet William Heyen dated 1981 on the front pastedown underneath the dustwrapper flap. Near Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. [x], 159, [3]pp. Bound in publisher's blue boards with black cloth backstrip, lettered in gilt. Fine in a bright dust jacket with a tiny patch of laminate bubbling, else Fine and unclipped. An attractive copy of the major collection by the acclaimed American short story writer.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
CARVER, Raymond. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Uncorrected Proof in cream wraps of Carver's second major collection of short fiction and his first book to go into further printings. Included is the story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film EVERYTHING MUST GO. Reproduces many corrections in the text. Mild darkening to the spine. Near Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Uncorrected proof of these Carver stories. Reproduces many of the corrections to the text. 159 pages.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
CARVER, Raymond. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Uncorrected Proof in cream wraps of Carver's second major collection of short fiction and his first book to go into further printings. Included is the story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film EVERYTHING MUST GO. Reproduces many corrections in the text. Publisher's notations in black and red ink on the front cover giving a publication date of April 1981 and a price of $9.95 along with a statement of 7500 in the first printing. "APR" in ink on bottom bulked text edge. Mild staining to the rear. Near Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$343.87 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Brand New!
Seller: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981 Reproduces many corrections in the text. Carver's second major collection of short fiction and his first book to go into further printings. Included is the story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film "Everything Must Go." Includes some publisher's material stapled or taped in. Hand-written publication date and price at top left of front cover. Mild soiling, light wear; near fine. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail update.
Seller: Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond.. What We Talk about when We Talk about Love.. KNOPF., New York, 1981.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. (Virtually indiscernible erasure at bottom edge of front end-paper. Trace of light rubbing to upper edge of boards. ) Author's widely praised collection of stories. ; 6" x 8 3/4"; 159 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Carver, Raymond.. What We Talk about when We Talk about Love.. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Review copy. (Publisher's slip and promotional placard laid-in. ) Close to fine in fine dust jacket. (Excess glue on rear paste-down has caused a tiny loss of paper of about a sixteenth of an inch along bottom edge where opened. ) Despite this minor flaw a very fine, fresh copy in dust jacket. Author's breakthrough book. Stories. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
CARVER, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo. Colorful dust jacket, signed and inscribed by author at half title page. Near fine, very minor edge wear to dust jacket.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
CARVER, RAYMOND. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$826.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Signed by Carver on endpaper. His first commercial success. Slight fading on dj spine. Slight sunning to top and bottom edge. otherwise a fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Carver, Raymond.. What We Talk about when We Talk about Love.. KNOPF, New York, 1981.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. SIGNED by Raymond Carver on the half-title page. Near fine in very close to fine dust jacket. (Faint trace of soiling at bottom edge of front board. Tiny nick in jacket. ) Author's widely praised collection of stories. ; 6" x 8 1/2"; 159 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1171.11 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Seventeen stories, including 'So Much Water So Close to Home', the author's third collection and first commercial success; inscribed by Raymond Carver, 'with regards and admiration', to Doug Blazek, the San Francisco poet. Review copy with press release and embargo slip laid in. A little edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia