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CARVER, RAYMOND. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? 8vo, publisher's 1/4 blue cloth, minor rubbing to spine ends; dust jacket, soft creasing along folds. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1976)
first edition of carver's first short story collection. an extraordinary presentation copy, warmly inscribed to his mother in the year of publication: "For my mother / with all love and affection / yr. son, Ray. / March 1976." With his additional signature on the title-page, and a photograph of a teenage Carver laid-in. A fine copy.
