Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: The Stories of Raymond Carver Tapa dura - 1976

McGraw-Hill Companies, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Library accoutrements in the usual locales; front flyleaf removed; interior pages absent any extraneous marks. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

McGraw-Hill. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1.

McGraw-Hill, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8x5x1. First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. Hardcover in jacket, price intact on jacket flap. Jacket has some general handling wear, faint creasing, and a small scuff to lower spine that has affected the question mark in title. Book is clean and unmarked. Binding strong. Light wear. Jacket now in fresh Mylar. Very good book in a jacket with some wear.. Additional photos available upon request. All of our books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Carver's influential volume of short stories, nominated for the National Book Award. In the late 1990s, after Gordon Lish's archive became available to researchers at the Lilly Library, the extent that Lish edited Carver's stories became apparent. Lish had been Carver's advocate for many years, as an editor at Esquire, and one of the few people in the literary world giving Carver paying gigs. Lish helped convince McGraw-Hill to publish this book, Carver's first major collection of stories. In 1976, McGraw-Hill mostly published textbooks and popular titles like Erma Bombeck's The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, so a book that ended up on many critics' "best of" lists that year was something of a stretch (the best parallel that comes to mind is Chilton, the auto-repair manual company, publishing Frank Herbert's Dune a decade earlier). After ten years as a struggling writer, the author of chapbooks and… Leer más

McGraw-Hill. Collectible - Good. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976. 1st edition. 249pp. Good book. Good dust jacket. Dust Jacket edges a bit frayed. In polypropylene bag. (short stories, social life and customs) Inquire if you need further information.

McGraw-Hill, 1976-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. Signed, "October 1, 1977, Arcata, Raymond Carver." Book pages are immaculate, tightly bound. Outer wear: a little rubbing to lower spine. DJ looks good in new lined mylar protector; has ever so slight browning of the white paper, one short (1/2 inch) closed tear at upper edge front panel, quite slight wear otherwise. The blue publisher's dye on the upper page edges has a slight bit of bleed to text face, first few pages; a minor flaw only.