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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Hardcover, 201 pp. A fine tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Appears as new.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/good. Hardcover, 396 pp. Briefly INSCRIBED and signed by Hartman on the front endpaper. Very light foxing to the top page edges, minor edge wear to spine ends and board edges, still a lightly used very good plus copy with clean text and solid binding in a good dust jacket (shallow chipping to spine ends, soiled and a few closed edge tears). Protected in an archival cover.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. Hardcover, 136 pp. Small sticker from U.S. publisher on title page, else a tight lightly used near fine copy with clean text in a very good plus dust jacket which is now protected in an archival cover.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Hardcover, 474 pp. A lightly used near fine copy with clean contents and tight finding in like dust jacket which is now protected in an archival cover. No remainder marks or internal markings.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/near fine. Hardcover, 286 pp. Some light foxing to the page edges and the endpapers, light wear to the bottom board edges, still a very good plus copy in a bright near fine dust jacket (just some very slight darkening to the spine and the rear panel). Now protected in mylar.

New York: The Ames & Rollinson Press, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover, 47 pp., with slipcase. INSCRIBED and signed by the author and dated in the year of publication. Tiny abrasion on spine and front gutter, still a very good plus copy with clean contents and tight binding in a worn but sound publisher's slipcase (some paper loss at head of backstrip). No dust jacket.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Hardcover, 83pp. Presentation copy with typed letter on New York Governor's stationary SIGNED by Governor Rockefeller laid in. The letter was mailed to the recipient with this book. Paperclip impression and stain on first several pages, still a very good plus copy with clean text and tight binding in a very good dust jacket (just some minor soiling to rear panel and a trace of edge wear).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. hardcover. SIGNED by Boswell on the title page. A fine tight copy in a fine dust jacket which is now covered in mylar.

New York: Orion Press, 1958. First, thus. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. Hardcover, 317 pp., review copy with slip laid in.Translated from the French by R.H. Blackley. Text block tanned, else a lightly used near fine copy with clean text and tight binding in a very good plus lightly soiled dust jacket which is now protected in an archival cover.

Ashland: Economy Printers, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. paperback. Nicely INSCRIBED and signed by Stuart in 1970 on the title page. Some soiling to the covers, else a lightly used near fine copy with clean contents and solid binding. Bound in blue pictorial stapled wrappers.

New York: Scientia-Factum, Inc., 1967. Third Edition. Paperback. Fair. 29 pages in stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED and signed by Kosinski to John Aldridge and his wife Alexandria in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Aldridge was an English Professor at the University of Michigan, an author and one of the most important literary critics of his generation. This copy is well worn and includes much underlining and a few margin notes made by Aldridge. The front cover is nearly unattached and is barely being held by one of the staples. A fair copy only but an important copy.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Hardcover, 428 pp. A fine copy with clean text and tight binding in a very good plus dust jacket (just one short closed tear and crease at bottom of front panerl).

New York: Viking Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Hardcover, INSCRIBED and signed by the author on the half title page. Slight bump to heel of spine, still a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket (just a trace of edge wear).

Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing, hardcover. A fine tight copy with clean text in a fine unflawed dust jacket which is now protected in an archival cover.

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover, 158 pp. A fine tight copy with clean text. Appears unused. No dust jacket as issued.

Layton: Peregrine Smith, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Advance copy in blue printed wrappers, a collection of interviews with writers that were influenced by Carver. A lightly use near fine copy with clean text and tight binding.