Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Two distinct signed states precede or parallel the trade hardcover. The Franklin Library signed first edition (burgundy leather with four raised bands, gilt titling and gilt designs to both panels, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, and a sewn-in ribbon marker) preceded the trade and contains an introduction, a Special Message by Carver, that appears nowhere else in the text. Separately, Atlantic Monthly Press issued a signed limited edition of 250 numbered copies in a slipcase. The trade Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover is the standard first trade edition. The Vintage Contemporaries paperback (1989) is a later reprint.