Lot 17
  • 17

Carver, Raymond

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. New York: Knopf, 1981
  • paper, ink, cloth
8vo. Original blue quarter cloth and gilt-stamped boards; light fading along edges. Original dust jacket; small chip from front and rear panel, some creasing and rubbing to edges. Cloth case.

Catalogue Note

first edition, presentation copy for the author's daughter.. "For my daughter with love as always. Dad. Syracuse, N. Y. March 21 1981."  Christine Carver has penned a touching note beneath her father's inscription and added a more lengthy ALS for provenance which is laid into the case.

a cornerstone collection of postwar American short fiction