Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

New York: McGraw & Hill (1976). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 249 pp. Original quarter cyan over blue khaki-covered boards, stamped in orange, in original unclipped ($8.95) dust-jacket. Handling wear to panels and edges - particular to spine crown and foot, with chips, light loss and tears. Protected in archival mylar. Small tape repair to verso. Book is tight, with a mild forward lean and firm. Mild shelf wear to edges with rubbing along the panels - particular to spine crown and foot. Interior clean and unmarked. Previous owner’s name to ffep. A few bumps to panel edges and corners. Some mild toning and foxing to pages and edges.

Dust Jacket: Good

Hardcover: Good

“Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) was the first major-press short-story collection by American writer Raymond Carver. Described by contemporary critics as a foundational text of minimalist fiction, its stories offered an incisive and influential telling of disenchantment in the mid-century American working class. Carver was nominated for the National Book Award for his first major-press collection, "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please" in 1977 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his third major-press collection, Cathedral (1984), the volume generally perceived as his best.”