WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET PLEASE? - SIGNED
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976. First Edition. Item #7439
First Printing. Octavo (21cm); beige and aquamarine cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine and in blind on front panel; light blue topstain; dustjacket; [xii],249,[3]pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Spine ends very gently nudged, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy, with the topstain bright and even. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), with trivial wear and dust-soil to extremities, and some of the usual toning on verso; Near Fine.
Carver's breakthrough book of short stories, and his first book to be issued by a major publisher. Many of the stories first appeared in the pages of Esquire, Northwest Review, Harper's Bazaar, Chicago Review, Kansas Quarterly, and North American Review. The collection contains some of Carver's finest short fiction, including the title story, "Fat," "Neighbors," "They're Not Your Husband," and "What Do You Do in San Francisco?". Nominated for the National Book Award in 1977.
Price: $1,250.00