Cathedral by Raymond Carver [FIRST EDITION]

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

FIRST EDITION / SECOND PRINTING [1983] ALFRED A KNOPF

True U.S. First Edition of Carver's third collection of short stories. 

Hardcover with Dust Jacket in Very Good condition. 

Dust Jacket is excellent; price clipped on front panel.   

Book reads beautifully;  cover has some tanning to boards along edges.  

Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another.  These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver’s career and “overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life. . . . Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty. . . . his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart” (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World).