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

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. Small, faint stain to bulked text fore-edge. About Fine in a close to Fine, bright white dustwrapper. 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. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Carver to poet Michael Waters and his wife on the front endpaper: "For Michael and Robin/with love/and in friendship/Ray/Salisbury/4-10-80." Waters and Carver were friends. In his collection DARLING VULGARITY (2006), Waters has a poem about a visit by Carver to his home in Salisbury [Maryland] where Carver mistakenly lets their housebound dog out, and the two writers have to scour the neighborhood to retrieve him.