Carver, Raymond.
At Night the Salmon Move.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First edition. A nice twice-signed association copy of Carver's third collection of poems, including "You Don't Know What Love Is (an Evening with Charles Bukowski)" and the title poem.
$600
This is one of 100 signed and numbered copies signed on the colophon, and it is additionally inscribed by Carver on the front free endpaper: "For David [Boxer], with love and good wishes always | Ray | Arcata | 3-13-82."
Boxer was a long-time professor at Humboldt State University, arriving a few years after Carver left. However, Carver made many lifelong friendships at the university and returned often. He became friends with Boxer, and in 1979, Boxer and Cassandra Phillips wrote an influential study ("'Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?’: Voyeurism, Dissociation, and the Art of Raymond Carver.") of Carver's short stories, which had been collected in book form just three years earlier.
It is interesting to compare the small, informal inscription with the larger, bolder full signature on the colophon page. This attractive book, illustrated by Marcia/maris, designed by Noel Young, and printed by Young and Graham Mackintosh, concludes with a reproduction of a photograph of a young Carver fishing and a copy of the author's then-current fishing license.
44 pages. Bound in blue paper over navy cloth-covered boards, with the cover design printed in two colors. The title is printed on a paper label affixed to the spine. Not issued in a dust jacket. Near fine copy.
$600.
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