[Rarebooks] FS: Raymond Carver's First Book INSCRIBED to a Friend

[Charles Agvent]

CARVER, Raymond. WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE? THE STORIES OF 
RAYMOND CARVER. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1976). First 
Edition. 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. (#020432)        $5,000

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