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ABRAHAMS, William, edited by. Prize Stories 1974:The O. Henry Awards. Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1974. First edition. Near fine with owner's gift inscription on front fly in near fine priceclipped dustwrapper. Includes stories by Raymond Carver and John Gardner. #120224... $14 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Anthology) GILDNER, Gary and Judith Gildner, edited by. Out of this World: Poems from the Hawkeye State. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University Press 1975. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Contributors include Raymond Carver. #34013... $85 CARVER, Raymond. [Broadside]: Distress Sale. (Northridge): Lord John Press 1981. First edition. Broadside printed in black and red on stiff cardstock. 11" x 16". Fine. A poem, and one of 150 numbered copies Signed by both Raymond Carver and artist James R. Silke. Carver's first broadside. #83433...... $150 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Anthology) FISKETJON, Gary and Jonathan Galassi, edited by. The Random Review 1982. New York: Random House 1982. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Contributors include: Ann Beattie, Emile Capouya, Raymond Carver, Stephanie C. Gunn, Amy Herrick, Richard Leigh, Peter Taylor, Jean Thompson, Tobias Wolff, Patricia Zelver, Frank Bidart, Richard Blessing, Jim Gauer, Linda Gregg, Denis Johnson, Bill Knott, William Logan, Thomas Lux, Howard Nemerov, Katha Pollitt, Mark Rudman, Alan Shapiro, Linda Vavra, C.K. Williams, Charles Wright, Terrence Des Pres, and Robert Haas. #46939... $20
CARVER, Raymond. Two Poems. (Salisbury, Maryland): Scarab Press (1982). First edition. Intaglio cover illustration by Patrick H. Cardiff. Fine in string-tied wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies Signed twice by the author. #315185... $275 CARVER, Raymond. At Night The Salmon Move. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press 1983. First edition. Blank postcard fine Signed by the author. Issued as a New Year's Greeting by the publisher and limited to 300 copies. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #310311... $0275 CARVER, Raymond. Cathedral: Stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #304721... $300 CARVER, Raymond. For Tess. Concord, New Hampshire: William B. Ewert 1984. First edition. Large broadside poem. 13.5" x 20". A faint crease in one corner, and two slight abrasions on the verso, probably from bring hung, else fine. One of 125 numbered copies printed by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press, and Signed by both Carver and Van Vliet. #315831...... $600
CARVER, Raymond and Tess Gallagher (and Ursula Le Guin). Dostoevsky: A Screenplay (and King Dog: A Screenplay). (Santa Barbara): Capra 1985. First edition. Fine in self wrappers as issued. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by both authors, this is copy number 20. Bound back-toback with King Dog: A Screenplay by Ursula K. Le Guin, as issued, and Signed by her as well. #282006... $200 SONNENBERG, Ben, editor. Grand Street: Winter 1985. New York: Heritage Printers 1985. Vol. 4, no. 2. Fine in wrappers, save for light sunning to the spine. This issue features works by William Trevor, R.K. Narayan and David Bromwich, with additional contributors including Susan Minot, Raymond Carver and Christopher Hitchens. #74473...... $15 CARVER, Raymond. The Window. Concord, NH: William Ewert 1985. First edition. Fine illustrated card. Approximately 9" x 3". Limited edition Christmas card issued by the publisher. Out of 136 this is one of 36 regular Signed copies on a special variant bluetinted paper. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #310313... $350 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X CARVER, Raymond. The Window. Concord, NH: William Ewert 1985. First edition. Fine illustrated card. Approximately 9" x 3". Limited edition Christmas card issued by the publisher. One of 100 unsigned copies (from a limitation of 136). Although not called for, this copy Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #310312... $200
CARVER, Raymond. The Window. Concord, NH: William Ewert 1985. First edition. Fine illustrated card. Approximately 9" x 3". Limited edition Christmas card issued by the publisher. Designated hor commerce and Signed by the author. Printed on the same stock as the 1/36. One of a few overrun copies. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #310314... $200 CARVER, Raymond. Where Water Comes Together with Other Water. New York: Random House (1985). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by Carver to author Richard Marius: For Richard Marius with my thanks and my good wishes. Well-met in Cambridge. Ray Carver April 11, 1985. And in Lanier, with my warm regards. Laid into the book is Marius two page typed manuscript, with several hand corrections, of his introductory remarks about Carver for a reading. Marius is best known for his novels of the South (The Coming of Rain, etc.) and his writings on Thomas More and Martin Luther. A nice association. #64368... $950 CARVER, Raymond. Where Water Comes Together with Other Water. New York: Random House (1985). First edition. Some stains to both the boards and the inside of the dustwrapper else very good. Signed by the author in the year of publication. #89735... $350
CARVER, Raymond. Where Water Comes Together With Other Water. New York: Random House (1985). First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a faded spine. #307956... $85 GALLAGHER, Tess. The Lover of Horses. New York: Harper & Row (1986). Fine in very good dustwrapper with a few closed tears and a bit of creasing to the bottom of the front panel. First collection of short fiction by the poet, almost certainly influenced in some degree by her marriage to Raymond Carver. #30727... $20 CARVER, Raymond. Two Poems. (Concord: Ewert 1986). First edition. Fine in saddlestitched wrappers. One of 160 Signed copies, this copy "hors commerce." #10760... $250 CARVER, Raymond. Ultramarine. New York: Random House (1986). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on the free endpaper and Signed on the signature on the title page. A beautiful copy. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #310289... $400
CARVER, Raymond. Ultramarine. New York: Random House (1986). First edition. Advance Review Copy with review slip laid in. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Poetry. #57837... $75 CARVER, Raymond. Music. (Concord, NH): (William Ewert) (1987). First edition. Fine in sewn paper wraps. Approximately 5" x 7". Limited edition of 10 copies signed and personalized by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #310307... $500 Carver, Raymond. Address at the University of Hartford, in Commencement. West Hartford: (University of Hartford) 1988. First edition. Fine in stapled wrappers. Carver received an honorary of Doctor of Letters from Hartford and this program contains his transcribed acceptance speech. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #309227... $130 Signed by All Contributors (Anthology) Lord John Ten. Northridge: Lord John Press 1988. First edition. Fine in quarter cloth and papercovered boards. One of 250 numbered copies of a total edition of 325. Signed by all contributors including Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, James Crumley, Jim Harrison, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Derek Walcott, Gerald R. Ford, Robert Bloch, William Everson, and many others. #293744... $300
CARVER, Raymond. The Toes. (Concord): (Firefly Press) (1988). First printing. One of 136 copies. Fine. One sheet folded to make four pages. #50987...... $85 CARVER, Raymond. Where I'm Calling From. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library 1988. First edition. Fine in full maroon leather gilt, edges gilt, silk place holder and marbled endpapers. Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #310344... $85 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X (Anthology) MORAMARCO, Fred and Al Zolynas, edited by. An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America: Men of Our Time. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press (1992). First edition. Near fine in wrappers with a slight bump to the upper spine corner. Signed by the editors. Contributors include Robert Bly, Raymond Carver, James Dickey, Allen Ginsberg, Donald Hall, Michael S. Harper, Robert Hass, Robert Hayden, Steve Kowit, Clarence Major, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Simon Ortiz, Robert Pinsky, Ishmael Reed, Jerome Rothenberg, Charles Simic, Gary Soto, Gary Snyder and Richard Wilbur. #45163...... $20 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X CARVER, Raymond. A New Path to the Waterfall. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (1989). First edition. Fine in slipcase as issued. Introduction by Tess Gallagher. This is one of 200 numbered copies Signed by Gallagher. Still sealed in shrink wrap. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #310281... $125
(CARVER, Raymond) CALLIS, Jo Ann. Jo Ann Callis: Objects of Reverie. Des Moines: Black Sparrow 1989. First edition. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. A pristine copy of the hardcover issue of this exhibition catalogue, copy 25 of 150 numbered copies Signed by the photographer, with poems by Raymond Carver and an essay by Buzz Spector. Image without dustwrapper. #16144...... $350 $245 GENTRY, Marshall Bruce and William L. Stull, editors. Conversations with Raymond Carver. Jackson, MS: University Press Of Mississippi (1990). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A collection of the author's interviews. Published in a limited run of 500 copies for public libraries. Part of the "Literary Conversations" Series. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #309511... $65 CARVER, Raymond. No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings. New York: Vintage 1992. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in printed wrappers and fine cardboard box. #308853... $30 CARVER, Raymond. Carnations: A Play in One Act. (Vineburg, CA): Engdahl Typography 1993. First edition. Fine in quarter-bound leather with gilt spine, marbled endpapers and fine black slipcase with illustrated label. Limited lettered edition of just 26 copies; this one "S". The first appearance of this play originally written by Carver as a student at Humbolt State University in 1962. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #309234... $375
X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (CARVER, Raymond), William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll, editors. Remembering Ray: A Composite Biography of Raymond Carver. Santa Barbara: Capra Press (1993). First edition. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. One of 30 numbered hardbound copies with a leaf bound in that was Signed by Carver in 1988. This is copy number 13. A composite biography by over forty contributors including Tess Gallagher, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Jay McInerney, William Heyen, Stephen Dobyns, William Kittredge, Haruki Murakami, Hayden Carruth, and Robert Coles. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #309515... $650 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (CARVER, Raymond), William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll, editors. Remembering Ray: A Composite Biography of Raymond Carver. Santa Barbara: Capra Press (1993). First edition. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. A composite biography by over forty contributors including Tess Gallagher, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Jay McInerney, William Heyen, Stephen Dobyns, William Kittredge, Haruki Murakami, Hayden Carruth, and Robert Coles. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #309519... $30 HALPERT, Sam. Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (1995). Uncorrected proof. Quarto printed wrappers with clear plastic front cover. Spine ends lightly worn, else fine. #325014... $100
HALPERT, Sam. Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (1995). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Although not marked in any way, this copy from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. #306504... $50 (Mystery) JACKSON, Jon. Ridin' With Ray. Santa Barbara: Neville 1995. First edition. Illustrated by Barnaby Conrad. As new in silk covered boards. One of 300 copies (of a total edition of 326) numbered and Signed by the author. Comprises the title essay, a memoir of an inebriated trip with Raymond Carver, as well as the original, previously unpublished text of the short story "The Old Game," the first appearance of Jackson's detective protagonist, Mulheisen. Published price. #9993... $100 $70