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CARVER, Raymond. Ultramarine. New York: Random House, 1986.
8o. Original grey cloth-backed blue boards; pictorial dust jacket (slightest rubbing). Provenance: Jay McInerney (b. 1955), American author (presentation inscription from the author).
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CARVER TO JAY MCINERNY on the front free endpaper: "For my friend Jay, from an old admirer, -- and for Jay and Merry, with love and in friendship. Yours ever, Ray. Nov. 18, 1986. Ann Arbor." McInerney caused a literary sensation in 1983 with the publication of his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City. Ultramarine, Carver's first major collection of poems, shows the influence of Frost and Jeffers on his verse style. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.
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FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CARVER TO JAY MCINERNY on the front free endpaper: "For my friend Jay, from an old admirer, -- and for Jay and Merry, with love and in friendship. Yours ever, Ray. Nov. 18, 1986. Ann Arbor." McInerney caused a literary sensation in 1983 with the publication of his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City. Ultramarine, Carver's first major collection of poems, shows the influence of Frost and Jeffers on his verse style. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.