Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
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.
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$2750.00 + 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.