WE ARE NOT IN THIS TOGETHER. Stories by William Kittredge 1938-1988. Edited & With a Foreword by Raymond Carver.
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1984. Signed limited edition. Hardcover. #49 of 50 copies signed by both Kittredge and Carver. Additionally inscribed by Kittredge to another (her signature and another to front endpaper). Eight stories; The Waterfowl Tree, Thirty-four Seasons of Winter, Flight, The Soap Bear, Blue Stone, Momentum is Always the Weapon, The Underground River, and We Are Not in This Together. One of the best publications of the press. 128 pages. Blurbs by Edward Abbey, Thomas McGuane, John Nichols and Richard Ford. In his foreword Carver writes; "Whole thing works on gravity. Heavy falls and the light floats away." This is said by a wheat rancher as he explains how a threshing machine operates in "The Van Gogh Field," the title story in Kittredge's first book of short stories. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Item #14959
ISBN: 0915308436
Price: $300.00