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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.
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$832.78 + 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$1207.23 + 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