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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First printing of the true first edition - published in the UK in 2000. First impression of the first UK edition of this collection, with the number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. The book was published in this simultaneous hardback edition, alongside a paperback edition. There was no equivalent US edition. Edited by William L. Stull, with a Foreword by Tess Gallagher. ***Very good in scarlet cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased, with some light creasing to the board edges in places. Corners sharp. Edges of text-block nice and clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions - clean with no marks or creases. No tears. Printed on nice quality paper. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-printed dustwrapper, which retains the publisher's printed price of £15.00. The dustwrapper is complete with no tears or chips, with just some minimal rubbing and creasing at the edges with a small nick at the top of the spine. The dustwrapper is crisp and unfaded. ***300 pages. 225 mm x 145 mm. ***Contents - Uncollected Stories: Kindling, What Would You Like to See?, Dreams, Vandals, Call If You Need Me. ***Five Essays and a Meditation, Early Stories: Furious Seasons, The Hair, The Aficionados, Poseidon and Company, Bright Red Apples, Fragment of a Novel: From The Augustine Notebooks, Occasions, Introductions, Book Reviews, Notes. ***'When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection "Elephant" and his own selection, "Where I'm Calling from". Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and this volume brings them together with all of his uncollected fiction, including a fragment of an unfinished novel, five early stories, and all of his non-fiction prose'. [Quote taken from the back panel] ***First impression of the true first edition, published in hardcover [there was also a more common wrappers issue]. A nice copy of this final Raymond Carver collection. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First UK Edition. Second printing of the first edition - published in the UK in the year after his death in 1989. The first printing came out the year before. There was no equivalent American edition. ***Near fine in light-grey cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Edges of text-block nice and clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions - clean with no marks or creases. No tears. Printed on nice quality thick paper. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-printed dustwrapper that is unpriced [for export?]. The dustwrapper is complete with no tears or chips, with just some minimal rubbing and creasing to the edges. Tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly creased. No fading to the sun-sensitive green colour on the spine of the dustwrapper - the red titles just slightly faded. The dustwrapper is clean. ***124 pages. 222mm x 142mm. ***'Raymond Carver's stories have invented a region of America, and an unmistakable voice to tell its tales. Cool and precise, their language pared to the bone, they slice through the routine that crusts ordinary life as small-town men and women confront the moment when their luck runs out. He is "one of the true contemporary masters" (New York Review of Books) whose stories "can already be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction" (New York Times). "Elephant and Other Stories" extends his achievement. Written in the simplest of styles, mirroring the rhythms of everyday life, the stories in Raymond Carver's first new collection for three years possess an awesome, mesmerizing power'. [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ****Second printing of the first UK edition, in very nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with 'First published in Great Britain 1985' on the printer's page, with no mentions of further printings. Illustrated throughout with drawings by the author. With a thirteen-page Introduction by Walter Hooper. ***Near fine in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing. Pages bright white, and printed on nice quality paper. No creases or tears - just some light scuffs to a couple of top corners at the back of the book. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £7.95. The dustwrapper is complete, with no chips or tears. The head of the spine of the dustwrapper is slightly creased, and the spine is very faded, although the front and back panels are clean and bright. ***240mm x 160mm. 206 pages including Encyclopedia Boxoniana at the back of the book. ***'Half a century before the publication of "The Chronicles of Narnia", that magical series of tales that has become one of the best-loved works in children's fiction, C. S. Lewis created another imaginary world. Its name was Boxen, and in a succession of stories Lewis explored its history, geography and the colourful exploits of its characters in quite extraordinary detail. This book presents the best of the Boxen stories, retaining the original illustrations and Lewis's idiosyncratic spelling. It also includes Encyclopedia Boxoniana, in which the adult Lewis looks back at his early creation, and an Introduction by Walter Hooper, illuminating the background to the stories. As the juvenilia of one of the most popular and influential writers of our time and a unique insight into the workings of an extraordinary mind, "Boxen" will prove of enduring fascination. More important, however, this book will allow readers young and old to enjoy an experience hitherto known only by a privileged few: that of losing oneself in the fascinating and eventful history of Boxen - a world as consistent and self-sufficient as that of "The Iliad."' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition of "Boxen - The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis" in nice bright original condition. Of interest to collectors of the work of C. S. Lewis. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Second printing of the true first edition - Booker Prize short-listed novel. ***Very good in dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Corners sharp. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. There is a slight reading lean to the binding and a light vertical reading crease to the spine. Top edge of page-block slightly marked. Fore-edge of page-block has a small indentation affecting the fore-edge of a few pages slightly. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Interior pages clean without any foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £10.95 net. The dustwrapper is complete with no tears or chips, just some light rubbing and creasing at the extremities. There is some fading to the sun-sensitive colour on the spine of the dustwrapper, which extends to the front and back panels near the spine (please see scans). ***223mm x145mm. 187 pages. ***Penelope Fitzgerald was born Penelope Mary Knox at the Old Bishop's Palace, Lincoln, the daughter of Edmund Knox, later editor of Punch, and Christina Hicks, daughter of Edward Hicks, the Bishop of Lincoln, and she was one of the first women students at Oxford. "The Beginning of Spring" is set in Moscow in 1913, and tells the story of a Moscow-born English-educated print shop owner whose English wife has suddenly abandoned him and their three children. The novel was shortlisted for the 1988 Booker Prize. Fitzgerald had a strong interest in Russian literature, and starting in the 1960s took courses in Russian language. She visited Moscow and environs in 1975, which included a visit to Tolstoy's house and a dacha in a birch forest. In the early 1970s, as part of her research on Edward Burne-Jones, Fitzgerald became friends with a Swiss art curator, Mary Chamot, who had been brought up in pre-revolution Russia. Chamot's family had had a greenhouse business in Moscow since the mid-1800s, and they had stayed on for a few years after the revolution. The original title of the novel was to be "The Greenhouse". Later, Fitzgerald considered "Nellie and Lisa", but her editor did not approve and suggested "The Coming of Spring" instead, an idea that the author modified for the published title.' (Wik) ***Second printing of the true first edition, complete in its original dustwrapper. Booker Prize shortlisted for 1988. A nice reading copy of the novel. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Translated from the Polish by Agnieszka Kolakowska. With an introduction by Harry Willetts. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. No foxing. Pages bright. No inscriptions. ***In a near fine beige-illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of £14.00 net. No tears. Spine of dustwrapper just slightly faded. Dustwrapper bright. ***384 pages including detailed appendixes to rear. 242 mm x 162 mm. ***'Oni is the Polish for "They" - but who are "They"? They are the shadowy leaders of the Soviet bloc, revered Party members of unrestricted power and privilege whose methods, and backgrounds, still remain largely unknown. ***In the early 1980s, when Poland was in crisis, the distinguished Polish journalist Teresa Toranska was able to interview a number of her country's former leaders, veteran communists whose careers began in the days of Stalin, and for the first time pierce this rule by anonymity. The result is a chilling, revealing and hitherto unrecorded account of how the Soviet Union secured its grip on Eastern Europe after World War II, and in particular of those it chose to run Poland's Moscow-controlled governments from 1944 to 1956. ***Those who appear here are Jakub Berman, once the most powerful and feared man in the country; Edwar Ochhab, first secretary of the party in 1956; Stefan Staszewski, Warsaw's one-time political leader who has now broken with his past; Roman Werfel, once the Party's chief ideologist; and Julia Minc, former editor-in chief of the Polish Press agency. Although now disgraced, such people were once Poland's political elite - and Stalin's puppets. The story of how they betrayed their country, told in their own words, is a remarkable and salutary reminder of how and why Eastern Europe came to be what it is today.' ***The interviews that constitute Oni were first published in Poland during the period of marital law by Przedswit, an underground publishing house.' (Quotes from inside front and inside rear of dustwrapper blurb respectively). ***First impression of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper, in fine bright condition. Very hard to find. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition of Raymond Carver's final book of poetry - published in the UK in the year after his death. Published in the USA in the same year by Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston. ***Near fine in dark-blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Edges of text-block slightly marked, mainly at the top and fore- edge. Internally fine with no inscriptions, clean with no marks or creases. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-printed dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of £11.00 net. The dustwrapper is complete with no tears or chips, but there is some scuffing and creasing to the edges. Some small areas of loss to the surface paper of the dustwrapper. No fading to the sun-sensitive red colour of the titles on the spine of the dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is clean. ***158 pages. 224mm x 144mm. ***'Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. "I began as a poet. My first publication was a poem. So I suppose on my tombstone I'd be very pleased if they put 'Poet and short story writer and occasional essayist'. In that order" [Raymond Carver] ***The keynote in Raymond Carver's last collection of poetry, which he completed shortly before he died, is a delight in the gift of the present, rather than regret for the past. And in her revealing and moving introduction his widow, the writer Tess Gallagher, recounts his last days, his growing fascination with the poetic possibilities of Chekhov's stories and the way in which this life-affirming collection gradually and naturally came together'. [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ****First impression of the first UK edition, in very good condition. Surprisingly uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First printing of the true first edition - published in the UK in the year of Raymond Carver's death in 1988. There was no equivalent American edition. ***Near fine in light-grey cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Edges of text-block nice and clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions - clean with no marks or creases. No tears. Printed on nice quality thick paper. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-printed dustwrapper, which retains the publisher's printed price of £9.95 net. The dustwrapper is complete with no tears or chips, with just some minimal rubbing and creasing to the edges. There is very slight fading to the sun-sensitive green colour at the edges of the dustwrapper, but the red titles on the spine are unfaded. The dustwrapper is clean. ***124 pages. 222mm x 142mm. ***'Raymond Carver's stories have invented a region of America, and an unmistakable voice to tell its tales. Cool and precise, their language pared to the bone, they slice through the routine that crusts ordinary life as small-town men and women confront the moment when their luck runs out. He is "one of the true contemporary masters" (New York Review of Books) whose stories "can already be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction" (New York Times). "Elephant and Other Stories" extends his achievement. Written in the simplest of styles, mirroring the rhythms of everyday life, the stories in Raymond Carver's first new collection for three years possess an awesome, mesmerizing power'. [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ****First printing of the first UK edition, in very nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Stephen Raw [Jacket design] (illustratore). First UK Edition. First printing of the true first edition - published in the UK in 1987. There was no equivalent US edition. The last work to be published by Raymond Carver before his untimely death the following year. Poems selected by the author. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased, with a light vertical reading crease to the spine. Corners sharp. Edges of text-block have a few handling marks. Internally the book is also near fine, with no inscriptions. No other marks or annotations. No creases or tears. Printed on nice quality thick paper. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-printed typographical dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's printed price of £11.50 net. The dustwrapper is complete with no chips or tears, just some minimal rubbing and creasing at the edges, with a small nick to the bottom edge of the back panel. The dustwrapper is marked from handling, particularly on the back panel [being a pale cream background] but unfaded even on the spine. ***206 pages. 221 mm x 142 mm. ***'Raymond Carver is a brilliant exponent of the short story. His creations "can already be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction"' (New York Times). His poetry is no less impressive. "In a Marine Light," the first collection of his poetry to be published outside America, is his own selection of recent work. Like his short stories, Raymond Carver's poems show a matchless talent for taking ordinary people, ordinary scenes, and making them seem extraordinary, strange, indelible. His ear for colloquial narration and dialogue is flawless. Raymond Carver's poetry is also striking in its range and variety whether he is writing "stories" about marginal lives of quiet desperation or exuberant celebrations of love, friendship and the simplicities pf everyday life. "In a Marine Light" fully affirms his high standing among contemporary writers.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***A first printing of the true first edition, published in the UK by Collins Harvill. A nice copy of this final Raymond Carver poetry collection, in the original dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. The book was first published in the US the year before by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ***Near fine in an American binding - the book was printed and bound in the USA - with cream paper-covered boards over a beige cloth-covered spine. With silver titles to the spine and front board. The silver is still nice and bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp with just a light crease to the top corner of the back board. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Edges of text-block clean. Internally fine with no inscriptions, clean with no marks or creases. Spine tight. ***In a near fine monochrome illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of £8.95 net. The dustwrapper is complete with no tears or chips, but there is a vertical crease to the front flap where it has been folded over. Other than that the dustwrapper is fine, with no chips or tears. No fading to the spine of the dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is clean and fresh. ***228 pages. 220mm x 150mm. ***'"Cathedral" is the third major-press collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, published in 1983. The collection contains the following stories: "Feathers" - A couple visit another couple who have a peacock and a baby; "Chef's House" - Wes rents Chef's house by the ocean and asks wife Edna to come live with him again; "Preservation" - Sandy's husband has taken to the sofa since he lost his job as a roofer three months before; "The Compartment" - Myers, vacationing in Europe, takes a train to meet his son, who he hasn't seen in eight years; "A Small, Good Thing" - An extended version of his earlier short story "The Bath". Scotty, 8, is hit by a car; "Vitamins" - Patti decides to sell vitamins door-to-door; "Careful" - Lloyd and wife Inez are living separately but she helps him with a problem; "Where I'm Calling From" - At Frank Martin's drying out facility with JP, Tiny, and other residents; "The Train" - Miss Dent waits in a train station late at night after she used a gun to force a man to kneel and plead for his life; "Fever" - Carlyle has trouble finding a babysitter after his wife leaves him and the kids for California; "The Bridle" - Marge, a woman who supervises an apartment building in Arizona with her husband Harley, tells the story about a family that moves into an apartment after being displaced from their farm in Minnesota; "Cathedral" - Narrated by a man whose wife is old friends with a blind man, the story shows the husband/narrator's distaste for the blind man who is coming to visit him and his wife for a few days. At times it seems that the man is jealous of the blind man for being so close to his wife; at other times it seems that the husband is disgusted by the man's blindness. In the end they bond in a way through the communication they share about what a cathedral looks like.' [Wiki] ****First impression of the first UK edition, in lovely near fine condition. A very uncommon book especially in this condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.