Raymond Carver; Tess Gallagher; edited by William L. Stull
First edition thus. 8vo. Pp. xviii, 300, [2 (blank)]. Red, textured paperboards, lettered in gilt to spine. Notes. Jacket photograph by Kent Baker (priced at £15.00 to front flap). Edited by William L. Stull, with a Foreword by Tess Gallagher.
Precedes the wrappered U.S. edition from Vintage by a year. A revised and expanded version of No Heroics Please released as a paperback original by Vintage Contemporaries in 1992. It includes five previously unpublished stories, a fragment of an unfinished novel "The Augustine Notebooks", five early stories, and all of his non-fiction prose, including his last essay, "Friendship", about a London reunion with Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff.
"Raymond Carver has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do, he has invented a country of his own." –Michael Wood, New York Times