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Raymond Carver
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Signed first edition, 1976
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) is Raymond Carver's first story collection, introducing the spare, working-class realism that would define his reputation. The twenty-two stories established him immediately as a major voice in American short fiction. Signed by Carver on the title page.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. ISBN: 0070101930. #10878.
Fine copy with very slight traces of wear at spine ends but otherwise sharp, unread copy, in a fine dust jacket with some minor wrinkling to rear of jacket that is only visible on close inspection. An exceptional copy.