Carver, Raymond

IF IT PLEASE YOU

CARVER, Raymond · 1984 · Charles Agvent

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

Northridge, CA. Lord John Press. First Edition. 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.. Fine without slipcase, as issued

WINTER INSOMNIA

CARVER, Raymond · 0 · Charles Agvent

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

(Santa Cruz). (Kayak). First Edition. Printed yellow and green wraps. Carver's first regularly published book and second book overall, a collection of poetry published in an edition of 1000 copies. Illustrated with color prints by Robert McChesney.. Fine

FURIOUS SEASONS

CARVER, Raymond · 1977 · Charles Agvent

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Santa Barbara. Capra Press. First Edition. 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.. Fine

WE ARE NOT IN THIS TOGETHER

(CARVER, Raymond) KITTREDGE, William · 1984 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€567.04 | £473.00 | ¥99,816)

Port Townsend. Graywolf Press. First Edition. Foreword by Raymond Carver. One of 50 numbered and SIGNED copies by both Kittredge and Carver.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

REMEMBERING RAY: A COMPOSITE BIOGRAPHY OF RAYMOND CARVER

(CARVER, Raymond) STULL, William L. and CARROLL, Maureen P. (editors) · 0 · Charles Agvent

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

Santa Barbara. Capra Press. First Edition. A composite biography by forty-three contributors including Tess Gallagher, Charles Wright, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Jay McInerney, William Heyen, Stephen Dobyns, William Kittredge, Hayden Carruth, and Robert Coles. Illustrate...

WINTER INSOMNIA

CARVER, Raymond · 0 · Charles Agvent

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

(Santa Cruz). (Kayak). First Edition. Printed yellow and green wraps. Carver's first regularly published book and second book overall, a collection of poetry published in an edition of 1000 copies. Illustrated with color prints by Robert McChesney. This copy SIGNED by the auth...

CATHEDRAL

CARVER, Raymond · 1983 · Charles Agvent

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. 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 ...

THE PHEASANT

CARVER, Raymond · 1982 · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.50 | ¥49,908)

Worcester, MA. Metacom Press. First Edition. 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.. Fine

PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES (Number 21 of the YES! CAPRA CHAPBOOK SERIES)

CARVER, Raymond · 1974 · Charles Agvent

$281.30 (€255.22 | £212.89 | ¥44,925)

Santa Barbara. Capra Press. First Edition. 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.. Owner name in ink at the...

THOSE DAYS. EARLY WRITINGS BY RAYMOND CARVER: ELEVEN POEMS AND A STORY

CARVER, Raymond · 1987 · Charles Agvent

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.10 | ¥69,871)

Elmwood, CT. Raven Editions. First Edition. Bound in marbled paper wrappers made by Faith Harrison. Designed and printed letterpress by Carol Blinn at Warwick Press. One of only 140 numbered copies SIGNED by the author.. Fine

MY FATHER'S LIFE

CARVER, Raymond · 1986 · Charles Agvent

$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.50 | ¥149,725)

Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ. Babcock & Koontz. First Edition. 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 by Gaylord Schanilec. A ...

MY FATHER'S LIFE

CARVER, Raymond · 1986 · Charles Agvent

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.80 | ¥59,890)

Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ. Babcock & Koontz. First Edition. 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 Carver's father that...

MY FATHER'S LIFE

CARVER, Raymond · 1986 · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.50 | ¥49,908)

Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ. Babcock & Koontz. First Edition. 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 Carver's father that...

FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES

CARVER, Raymond · 1983 · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.50 | ¥49,908)

Santa Barbara. Capra Press. First Edition. 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 Wr...

FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES

CARVER, Raymond · 1983 · Charles Agvent

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.80 | ¥59,890)

Santa Barbara. Capra Press. First Edition. 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 fig...

WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE? THE STORIES OF RAYMOND CARVER

CARVER, Raymond · 0 · Charles Agvent

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

New York. McGraw Hill. 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. . Very close to Fine in a lightly soiled but still Near Fine dustwrapper with a short closed...

WHERE I'M CALLING FROM. NEW AND SELECTED STORIES

CARVER, Raymond · 0 · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.50 | ¥49,908)

New York. Atlantic Monthly Press. First Edition. The author's strongest collection of stories and the last to be published in his lifetime. One of only 250 numbered copies of the publisher's limited first edition SIGNED by the author. . Fine in a Fine slipcase without dustwrap...

LORD JOHN TEN (10), A CELEBRATION

CARVER, Raymond; FORD, Gerald; HARRISON, Jim; UPDIKE, John; WALCOTT, Derek; etc. · 1988 · Charles Agvent

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.10 | ¥69,871)

Northridge, CA. Lord John Press. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Edited by Dennis Etchison, this anthology brings together contributions by 26 writers, each of whom has SIGNED the book at his contribution: Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, Raymond Carver, James ...

WINTER INSOMNIA

CARVER, Raymond · 0 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€567.04 | £473.00 | ¥99,816)

(Santa Cruz). (Kayak). First Edition. Printed yellow and green wraps. Carver's first regularly published book and second book overall, a collection of poems published in an edition of 1000 copies. Illustrated with color prints by Robert McChesney. This copy SIGNED by the autho...

WHERE I'M CALLING FROM. NEW AND SELECTED STORIES

CARVER, Raymond · 1988 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Franklin Center, PA. Franklin Library. First Edition. Decorated two-tone burgundy leather with beautiful gilt swirl design. Illustrated with a color frontispiece depicting a scene fron one of the stories. Limited and true First Edition of this important collection from a moder...