Conversations with Jim Harrison $18.00
Jackson, MS: 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.
Legends of the Fall $350.00
New York: Delacorte (1979)
Previous owner’s name in ink. Good, well-read copy with aged, sunned dust jacket with light wear.
The publication of this magnificent trilogy of short novels — “Legends Of The Fall,” “Revenge,” and “The Man Who Gave Up His Name” — confirmed Jim Harrison’s reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. These absorbing novellas explore the theme of revenge and the actions to which people resort when their lives or goals are threatened, adding up to an extraordinary vision of the twentieth-century man.
Saving Daylight $150.00
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press (2006)
Fine in dust jacket.
The Road Home $250.00
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (1998)
One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase.
The sequel to Harrison’s bestselling “Dalva”, written ten years ago, and a magnificent story of the American West, “The Road Home” tells the story of a family drenched in suffering and joy, imbued with fierce independence and love, rooted in the Nebraska soil and intertwined with the destiny of whites and Native Americans.
3 Blazes $90.00
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. Deluxe lettered edition A-Z, signed by all three poets and the artist. Wrapped in a custom protective sleeve.
Fine.
Dalva $150.00
New York: Dutton (1988)
Very good in lightly aged dust jacket. A read copy yet still presentable with light wear.
Beautiful, fearless, and tormented, forty-five year old Dalva has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Longing for the Nebraska prairie where she was born and for the son she gave up for adoption years before, she returns to the half Sioux lover of her youth, and to her great-grandfather, whose journals recount the annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way she discovers a story that stretches from the Civil War to Wounded Knee to Vietnam — and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.
Legends of the Fall $250.00
London: Collins (1980)
Near fine in dust jacket. First English Edition.
The publication of this magnificent trilogy of short novels — “Legends Of The Fall,” “Revenge,” and “The Man Who Gave Up His Name” — confirmed Jim Harrison’s reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. These absorbing novellas explore the theme of revenge and the actions to which people resort when their lives or goals are threatened, adding up to an extraordinary vision of the twentieth-century man.
Saving Daylight $125.00
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press (2006)
1 of 250 signed limited edition.
Named to the Notable Books of the Year lists from The Kansas City Star and the Michigan Library Association.
“Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.”—The Times (London)
“This is [Harrison’s] most robust, sure-footed, and blood-raising poetry collection to date.”—Booklist
Jim Harrison—one of America’s most beloved writers—calls his poetry “the true bones of my life.” Although he is best known as a fiction writer, it is as a poet that Publishers Weekly famously called him an “untrammeled renegade genius.”
Saving Daylight, Harrison’s tenth collection of poetry, is his first book of new poems in a decade. All of Harrison’s abundant passions for life are poured into suites, prose poems, letter-poems, and even lyrics for a mariachi band.
The subjects and concerns are wide-ranging—from the heart-rending “Livingston Suite,” where a boy drowns in the local river and the body is discovered by the poet’s wife—to some of the most harrowing political poems of Harrison’s career. There is also a cast of creature characters—bears, dogs, birds, fish—as well as the woodlands, thickets, and occasional cities of Arizona, Montana, Michigan, France, and Mexico.
“Imagination is my only possession,” Harrison once said. And Saving Daylight is an imagination in full, exuberant bloom.
Legends of the Fall $1,250.00
New York: Delacorte (1979)
One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Three volumes bound in white cloth in a slightly aged slipcase. Decoration on the front panel by John Thompson who also did the illustrations for the first publication of “Legends of the Fall,” the novella, in Esquire magazine.
Saving Daylight $16.00
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press (2007)
Named to the Notable Books of the Year lists from The Kansas City Star and the Michigan Library Association.
“Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.”—The Times (London)
“This is [Harrison’s] most robust, sure-footed, and blood-raising poetry collection to date.”—Booklist
Jim Harrison—one of America’s most beloved writers—calls his poetry “the true bones of my life.” Although he is best known as a fiction writer, it is as a poet that Publishers Weekly famously called him an “untrammeled renegade genius.”
Saving Daylight, Harrison’s tenth collection of poetry, is his first book of new poems in a decade. All of Harrison’s abundant passions for life are poured into suites, prose poems, letter-poems, and even lyrics for a mariachi band.
The subjects and concerns are wide-ranging—from the heart-rending “Livingston Suite,” where a boy drowns in the local river and the body is discovered by the poet’s wife—to some of the most harrowing political poems of Harrison’s career. There is also a cast of creature characters—bears, dogs, birds, fish—as well as the woodlands, thickets, and occasional cities of Arizona, Montana, Michigan, France, and Mexico.
“Imagination is my only possession,” Harrison once said. And Saving Daylight is an imagination in full, exuberant bloom.
The Road Home $150.00
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (1998)
Near fine in tan wrappers with light bumping on bottom spine.
True North $14.95
New York, NY: Grove (2005)
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, this new work by the author of “Legends of the Fall” is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots.
Dalva $200.00
London: Jonathan Cape (1989)
First English Edition.
Very good in dust jacket.
Beautiful, fearless, and tormented, forty-five year old Dalva has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Longing for the Nebraska prairie where she was born and for the son she gave up for adoption years before, she returns to the half Sioux lover of her youth, and to her great-grandfather, whose journals recount the annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way she discovers a story that stretches from the Civil War to Wounded Knee to Vietnam — and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.
Letters to Yesenin $12.00
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press (2007)
“The way Harrison has embedded his entire vision of our predicament implicitly in the particulars of two poetic lives, his own and Yesenin’s, is what makes the poem not only his best but one of the best in the past twenty-five years of American writing.”—Hayden Carruth, Sulfur
“Harrison inhabits the problems of our age as if they were beasts into which he had crawled, and Letters to Yesenin is a kind of imaginative taxidermy that refuses to stay in place up on the trophy room wall, but insists on walking into the dining room.”—The American Poetry Review
Jim Harrison’s gorgeous, desperate, and harrowing “correspondence” with Sergei Yesenin—a Russian poet who committed suicide after writing his final poem in his own blood—is considered an American masterwork.
In the early 1970s, Harrison was living in poverty on a hardscrabble farm, suffering from depression and suicidal tendencies. In response he began to write daily prose-poem letters to Yesenin. Through this one-sided correspondence, Harrison unloads to this unlikely hero, ranting and raving about politics, drinking problems, family concerns, farm life, and a full range of daily occurrences. The rope remains ever present.
Yet sometime through these letters there is a significant shift. Rather than feeling inextricably linked to Yesenin’s inevitable path, Harrison becomes furious, arguing about their imagined relationship: “I’m beginning to doubt whether we ever would have been friends.”
In the end, Harrison listened to his own poems: “My year-old daughter’s red robe hangs from the doorknob shouting Stop.”
Selected and New Poems $400.00
New York, NY: Delacorte (1982)
One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Specially bound in gold cloth. Near fine in lightly sunned decorated white slipcase.
The Road Home $16.00
New York, NY: Washington Square Press (1999)
As the Northridge family grapples with the mysterious forces that both pull them apart and draw them back together on the expanses of the Nebraska plains, they learn life’s lessons: the deception of passion, the pain of love, the vitality of art, and supplication to nature’s generosity and fury.
Warlock $150.00
New York: Delacorte (1981)
A good copy that has been read. Top of spine on dust jacket missing and there is a whole in the dust jacket spine. Spine has a little sun fading where dust jacket is missing. The front of the dust jacket has a couple of stains. Price clipped.
John Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployment foundation executive whose life is about to become unhinged. After surviving a midlife crisis, Warlock finally decides to get a job. He soon discovers, however, that his new boss, Dr. Rabun, is no less evil than Professor Moriarty. Hired to troubleshoot for the doctor, Warlock himself battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan while also spying on his employer’s wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West. A comedy with one foot in the abyss, “Warlock” is the singular literary entertainment from an American master.
Dalva $16.00
New York: Washington Square Press (1999)
Beautiful, fearless, and tormented, forty-five year old Dalva has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Longing for the Nebraska prairie where she was born and for the son she gave up for adoption years before, she returns to the half Sioux lover of her youth, and to her great-grandfather, whose journals recount the annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way she discovers a story that stretches from the Civil War to Wounded Knee to Vietnam — and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.