The Boy Who Ran To The Woods $50.00
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (2000)
Near fine in dust jacket.
Jim Harrison turns his hand to a child’s tale, recounting a childhood tragedy that ends in redemption. Harrison tells a personal story of little Jimmy, a boy who injures his eye and must learn life’s meanings through adversity. It is this painful experience that leads to little Jimmy’s discovery of nature and ultimately to his ability to overcome intense suffering. Beautifully told with Harrison’s quintessential style of writing about the natural world, and combined with the unique illustrations of Tom Pohrt, The Boy Who Ran to the Woods promises to delight children of all ages and will find a place of honor in the hearts of Harrison’s fans.
The Woman Lit by Fireflies $150.00
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1991)
First English Edition. Advance Review Copy.
Very good in dust jacket.
Livingston Suite $450.00
Boise, Idaho: Limberlost Press ( 2005)
One of 100 copies signed by the author and illustrator Greg Keeler.
A letterpress edition printed on Domestic Etching paper and bound by hand into cloth and boards. Illustrated throughout by Greg Keeler.
Braided Creek $75.00
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press (2003)
First edition, paperback issue. Fine in Russell Chatham decorated wrapper.
“Braided Creek “contains more than 300 poems exchanged in this longstanding correspondence. Wise, wry, and penetrating, the poems touch upon numerous subjects, from the natural world to the nature of time. Harrison and Kooser decided to remain silent over who wrote which poem, allowing their voices, ideas, and images to swirl and merge into this remarkable suite of lyrics. “Each time I go outside the world is different. This has happened all my life. * The moon put her hand over my mouth and told me to shut up and watch. * A nephew rubs the sore feet of his aunt, and the rope that lifts us all toward grace creaks on the pulley. * Under the storyteller’s hat are many heads, all troubled.”
Just Before Dark $300.00
Livingston, MO: Clark City Press (1991)
Near fine in decorated wrappers.
The Raw and the Cooked $600.00
New York: Dim Gray Bar (1992)
One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Specially bound with tan boards and a red cloth spine. Illustrated throughout by Deborah Nordan. Fine.
Contains 3 pieces: “Return of the Native/or Lighten Up”, “Let’s Get Lost”, and “One Foot In The Grave”.
The Woman Lit by Fireflies $125.00
New York: Houghton Mifflin (1990)
Probably unread in near fine dust jacket.
Locations $450.00
New York: Norton (1968)
Poetry. First edition, paperback issue. Very good plus in decorated wrapper. Issued at the same time as the hardback.
Brown Dog: Novellas $100.00
New York: Grove (2013)
In these novellas, BD rescues the preserved body of an Indian from Lake Superior’s cold waters; overindulges in food, drink, and women while just scraping by in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula; wanders Los Angeles in search of an ersatz Native activist who stole his bearskin; adopts two Native children; and flees the authorities, then returns across the Canadian border aboard an Indian rock band’s tour bus. The collection culminates with He Dog, never before published, which finds BD marginally employed and still looking for love (or sometimes just a few beers and a roll in the hay), as he goes on a road trip from Michigan to Montana and back, arriving home to the prospect of family stability and, perhaps, a chance at redemption.
“Brown Dog” underscores Harrison’s place as one of America’s most irrepressible writers, and one of the finest practitioners of the novella form.
Just Before Dark $300.00
Livingston, MO: Clark City Press (1991)
One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Decorated boards with cloth spine. Near fine in slipcase that has slight fading.
Jim Harrison’s essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues as diverse as PLAYBOY, THE NATION, OUTSIDE, and the AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW. They explore the passions and concerns of a classic American writer: ice fishing and bar pool, nouvelle cuisine and night walks.
Returning to Earth $150.00
New York: Grove (2006)
1/250 Signed Numbered Limited Edition in slipcase.
The Raw and the Cooked $60.00
New York, NY: Grove (2001)
Fine in dust jacket. Decorated with author photo taken by Maude Schuyler Clay.
Jim Harrison is one of this country’s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: “To read this book is to come away convinced that Harrison is a flat-out genius — one who devours life with intensity, living it roughly and full-scale, then distills his experiences into passionate, opinionated prose. Food, in this context, is more than food: It is a metaphor for life.” From his legendary Smart and Esquire columns, to present-day pieces including a correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle, fabulous pieces on food in France and America for Men’s Journal and a paean to the humble meatball, The Raw and the Cooked is a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite.
The Woman Lit by Fireflies $14.95
New York, NY: Grove (2008)
Harrison has garnered critical acclaim for masterpieces such as “Legends of the Fall, The Beast God Forgot to Invent,” and, most recently, “Returning to Earth.” Now, “The Woman Lit by Fireflies,” one of his best-loved books, is available in a paperback edition.
Conversations with Jim Harrison $100.00
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2002)
Part of the UP of Mississippi’s “Conversations” series. This book offers 240 pages of career-spanning interviews with Jim Harrison.
Just Before Dark $18.95
Boston, MA: Mariner Books (1999)
Jim Harrison’s essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues as diverse as PLAYBOY, THE NATION, OUTSIDE, and the AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW. They explore the passions and concerns of a classic American writer: ice fishing and bar pool, nouvelle cuisine and night walks.
Returning to Earth $14.00
New York, NY: Grove (2007)
In his universally-praised book, Harrison has delivered a masterpiece–a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places.
The Raw and the Cooked $13.00
New York, NY: Grove (2002)
For the first time, all of Harrison’s food writing is available in one volume. Any reader of Harrison’s fiction is struck by the love for food, wine, and other sensual pleasures that permeates it–and anyone who has read his essays and journalism has encountered a food critic unlike any other: unpretentious, witty, and unabashedly passionate.
True North $150.00
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (2004)
An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family’s desecration of the earth, and his own father’s more personal violations, True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots. The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force, and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at fourteen by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way. As David comes to adulthood, he realizes he must come to terms with his forefathers’ rapacious destruction of the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, as well as with the working people who made their wealth possible. In the story of the Burketts, Jim Harrison has given us a family tragedy of betrayal and amends, joy and grief, and justice for the worst of our sins. True North is a bravura performance from one of our finest writers, accomplished with deep humanity, humor, and redemptive soul.
3 Blazes $40.00
Kingston, WA: Expedition Press (2015)
3-panelled broadside featuring poems by Jim Harrison, Clemens Starck, and Dan Gerber. Printed letterpress in two colors from handset metal type, and z-folded. Numbered edition of 100 signed by all three poets and the artist.
Fine.