New York: Viking (1976)

Very good in bright, slightly crinkled dust jacket.

“Farmer is a sensitive, powerful love story about a man on the cutting edge of life. The book deals with his attempt to figure out who he is, how he got there, and the women who confuse and haunt him. The characters are so real that often my eyes filled up with tears for their plight, their human helplessness.” – Richard Brautigan

New York: Literary Guild (1971)

Includes an early excerpt from Harrison’s first novel, Wolf: A False Memoir. Rare and signed in very good and seemingly unread condition. Issued in small paperback size with decorated wrapper.

New York: Norton (1968)

Poems. Fine hardback copy in nice dust jacket that has light chipping.

New York: Dutton (1984)

Fine in dust jacket. Probably an unread copy.

In the wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Robert Corvus Strang is crawling through the woods. A beautiful Costa Rican woman is dancing in a string bikini, and a dissipated writer is trying to stay on his feet. . . Strang leads his listeners across rivers of time, through he nature of innocence, politics and desire, to a final and stunning defiance of life’s frailty.

New York: Grove (2005)

Witty, earthy, and joyful, “The Summer He Didn’t Die is a sheer celebration of life and all its magic. In the title novella, “The Summer He Didn’t Die,” Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian loved by Harrison; s readers, is trying to parent his two stepchildren and take care of his family’s health on meager resources–it helps a bit that his charms are irresistible to the new dentist in town. “Republican Wives” is a riotous satire on the sexual neuroses of the right, the mystery of why any person desires another, and the irrational power of love that, when thwarted, can turn so easily into an urge to murder. “Where Are We?” mines Harrison’s private religion of the sensuous and sensual as integral to the transcendent joy of living. “The Summer He Didn’t Die displays wit as sharp and prose as lush as any Harrison has yet written. “The Boston Globe has said of Harrison’s previous novella collection, “Reading Jim Harrison is about as close as one can come in contemporary fiction to experiencing the abundant pleasures of living”–and “The Summer He Didn’t die is a resonant, hilarious, and joyful ode to our journey on this earth.

New York: Simon & Schuster (1971)

Near fine yet has a narrow black line remainder mark on page bottom. Bright, price-clipped dust jacket is very good plus.

East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press (1997)

Introduction written by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber, edited by Joseph Bednarik.

Signed by Jim Harrison.

Very good in wrapper decorated by Russell Chatham.

Sumac was a Michigan-based literary journal founded in 1968 by poets Dan Gerber and Jim Harrison; novelist Thomas McGuane joined the editorial staff in 1969 as the fiction editor. When the inaugural issue appeared, more than 250 American literary magazines were listed in The Directory of Magazines and Small Presses; within three years, Sumac rose to the first tier of these publications and was nationally recognized for its eclecticism and editorial quality. The Library Journal called it “one of the best little magazines now being published.”  
      Remaining true to Sumac’s energetic catholicity, The Sumac Reader is an anthology that contains poetry, experimental fiction, and works in translation that originally appeared in the magazine. Contributors include four Pulitzer Prize-winning poets—Galway Kinnell, Charles Simic, Louis Simpson, and Gary Snyder—along with Paul Blackburn, Hayden Carruth, Richard Hugo, Denise Levertov, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, and Diane Wakoski. There are early poems by Charles Simic, James Tate, and Michael Waters, as well as a complete section from Galaway Kinnell’s classic, The Book of Nightmares. Fiction is represented in Sumacby a first-published Jim Heynen story “Coyote” and early prose by William Kittredge. Translations from Chinese, French, Spanish, and Russian bring to American readers the work of masters such as Tu Fu, Lorca, and Li Po. A variety of poetic forms are represented, including ghazals, narratives, suites, found poems, and the freest of free verse.

New York: Simon and Schuster (1973)

Very good in lightly aged dust jacket.

Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them could have imagined. There was the poet able to retreat into beatific reveries of superb fishing in cold, fast streams; the Vietnam vet consumed by uppers, downers and violence; and the girl who loved only one of them — at first. With their ideals ostensibly in order, they set out from Florida to save the Grand Canyon from a dam they believed was being built. Along with the tapedeck for the car, the liquor and the drugs, there was also a case of dynamite.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska (2009)

Foreword by Jim Harrison.

Fine in dust jacket. Signed by Gregg Orr.

Jim Harrison, a literary maverick, is widely considered one of the great and iconic writers in contemporary American literature. This pioneering volume, an extensive and up-to-date illustrated guide to Harrison’s published works, is the first full-length catalog of a distinguished literary career spanning more than forty years. Longtime Harrison readers and collectors Gregg Orr and Beef Torrey have amassed a thorough list of the author’s wide-ranging work, annotated and arranged by genre to provide a full view of the breadth of Harrison’s accomplishment. This work contains more than sixteen hundred citations of writings by and about Harrison, including his fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, screenplays, criticism, and reviews; it also features photographs of his books, dust jackets, and broadsides. With a foreword by Harrison, penned especially for this seminal volume, and an introduction by writer and scholar Robert DeMott, this is the definitive bibliographical study of a major figure in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century American letters.

New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (2002)

Fine in dust jacket.

For nearly forty years, Harrison has been one of America’s most beloved writers. Now, for the first time, Harrison writes about his own life — a life that is the root of his wonderful fiction, and which he captures with a riveting directness and a delightful, peculiar music. He writes about his upbringing in Michigan; the austerities of life amid the Depression and the Second World War, and the seemingly greater austerities of his starchy Swedish forebears; and how a boy from the “heartland” somehow ended up a highly paid Hollywood screenwriter and world-renowned novelist. He returns always to his love of literature — from his first awakenings to the power of writing in his teens, and his youthful decision to model himself on Rimbaud; how books have remained his center, sustaining him during the darkest times of his life. Above all, he delivers a joyful, meditative, candid, and wise book that is a paean to the complex delights of life.

Livingston, MO: Clark City Press (1989)

Fine in dust jacket. Illustrated by Russell Chatham.