AT NIGHT THE SALMON MOVE
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Early collection of poems, copy #21 of only 100 numbered and SIGNED copies of the hardcover issue of a total edition of 1100.
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AT NIGHT THE SALMON MOVE
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Early collection of poems, one of 1000 copies of the softcover issue in pictorial wraps of a total edition of 1100. Increasingly uncommon to find without any defects.
CATHEDRAL
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof in plain blue printed wraps. Although his previous collection achieved some popularity, this title is really Carver's breakthrough and break-away (from the restraints of Gordon Lish's style) book. In it, Carver moved beyond the constraining label of minimalism to.....
CATHEDRAL
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof in plain blue printed wraps. Although his previous collection achieved some popularity, this title is really Carver's breakthrough and break-away (from the restraints of Gordon Lish's style) book. In it, Carver moved beyond the constraining label of minimalism to.....
CATHEDRAL
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Although his previous collection achieved some popularity, this title is really Carver's breakthrough and break-away (from the restraints of Gordon Lish's style) book. In it, Carver moved beyond the constraining label of minimalism to mine an emotional depth not.....
FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 numbered copies in red boards SIGNED by Carver of this superb collection containing the title essay as well as his essay "On Writing," along with 50 poems and 7 stories, including "So Much Water So Close to Home," which.....
FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. The standard trade issue in paperback. There were also a small number of copies bound in boards, similar to the limited edition and likely meant for libraries. A superb collection containing the title essay as well as his essay "On Writing," along.....
FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #179 of 250 numbered copies in red boards SIGNED by Carver of this superb collection containing the title essay as well as his essay "On Writing," along with 50 poems and 7 stories, including "So Much Water So Close to Home,".....
FURIOUS SEASONS
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Carver's second collection of stories, one of 1200 copies of the issue in pictorial wraps of a total edition of 1300. This is a Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid in.
FURIOUS SEASONS
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Carver's second collection of stories, one of 1200 copies of the issue in pictorial wraps of a total edition of 1300.
IF IT PLEASE YOU
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated boards with a black leather spine; (vi), 19 (1) pages. Copy "T" of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the author (of a total edition of 226) of this short story about an accountant.
IN A MARINE LIGHT
London: Harvill, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. There is no comparable U.S. edition of this collection of poems which were published in the United States in two volumes--WHERE WATER COMES TOGETHER WITH OTHER WATER and ULTRAMARINE--and are here rearranged with an epigraph that does not appear elsewhere.
MY FATHER'S LIFE
Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. Gaylord Schanilec. First Edition. wraps. Copy #140 of 200 numbered copies sewn into Fabriano Roma wrappers and SIGNED by the author of a total edition of 240. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page by Gaylord Schanilec. A memoir of.....
MY FATHER'S LIFE
Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. Gaylord Schanilec. First Edition. wraps. Copy #192 of 200 numbered copies sewn into Fabriano Roma wrappers and SIGNED by the author of a total edition of 240. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page by Gaylord Schanilec. A memoir of.....
MY FATHER'S LIFE
Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. Gaylord Schanilec. First Edition. wraps. Copy #XXXIV of only 40 numbered copies sewn into Mouchette de Pombie wrappers and SIGNED by the author and by the artist of a total edition of 240. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page.....
MY FATHER'S LIFE
Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. Gaylord Schanilec. First Edition. wraps. Copy #XXXVI of only 40 numbered copies sewn into Mouchette de Pombie wrappers and SIGNED by the author and by the artist of a total edition of 240. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page.....
NO HEROICS, PLEASE. UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS
London: Harvill, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. The true First Edition published a year before the U.S. softcover publication. Foreword by Tess Gallagher.
NO HEROICS, PLEASE. UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, (1992). First Edition. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. Edited by William Stull with a foreword by Tess Gallagher.
THE PHEASANT
Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. This short story is copy #54 of 150 copies of the issue in French marble wraps of a total edition of 176 SIGNED by the author on the colophon page.
PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES (Number 21 of the YES! CAPRA CHAPBOOK SERIES)
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. One of 500 copies in decorated wraps of the first collection of Carver's stories to be published in book form, preceding WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE? by two years.
PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES (Number 21 of the YES! CAPRA CHAPBOOK SERIES)
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. One of 500 copies in decorated wraps of the first collection of Carver's stories to be published in book form, preceding WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE? by two years. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES (Number 21 of the YES! CAPRA CHAPBOOK SERIES)
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards. Illustrated with block prints by Marcia/Maris. A short story, Carver's third book, preceded by two collections of poems; hence, his first book of fiction. Of only 75 numbered and hardbound copies SIGNED by the author on the colophon page, this.....
SHORT CUTS. SELECTED STORIES
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, (1993). First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof in plain light blue printed wraps. An editor's ink annotations on the printed list of titles page.
THE STORIES OF RAYMOND CARVER
(London): Picador, (1985). First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. Prints all of the stories in WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE; WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE; and CATHEDRAL. There was no comparable American edition.
THIS WATER
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1985. First Edition. Wraps. Of a total edition of 136, this is one of 100 copies in white wraps and a printed blue dustwrapper of this collection of 8 poems, none of which had previously appeared in book form, SIGNED by the author on the.....