Bert Babcock Bookseller

COMMENCEMENT, MAY 15, 1988 (Inscribed Association copy)

Carver, Raymond

West Hartford, CT: University of Hartford, 1988. First edition. Stapled Wrappers.

Inscribed by Carver to antiquarian bookseller Bert Babcock on the day of the ceremony. The program contains Carver’s commencement address (pp. 24-25), delivered on receiving an honorary doctorate, with a portrait and biographical notice on p. 23. Beneath the closing lines of the address, Carver sends Bert his “great good wishes” “in friendship,” signs “Yours, Ray,” and dates the inscription “Hartford / May 15, 1988.” Babcock co-published the first separate edition of Carver’s My Father’s Life under the Babcock & Koontz imprint in 1986. Nice association. 60 pp. 8vo original red stapled wrappers.

. Near fine.

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