March 2019 E-List
No 13: A Jim Harrison Sampler
Our latest Harrison list is heavy with poetry, but includes a little bit of everything: his later novellas (Brown Dog), his children's book (The Boy Who Ran to the Woods), a collaboration with his friends Russell Chatham and Chris Waddington (One Hundred Paintings), even a French edition of one of his memoirs (En marge: Mémoires).
And of course we always have more of Jim on our website.
If you're interested in making a purchase, you may click on the link at the end of each entry, which will take you to our website, call us at (406) 333-2330, email info@elkriverbooks.com, or just stop by the store and we can help you in person.
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Andrea & Marc
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Chatham, Russell, Jim Harrison and Chris Waddington
Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1990.
Hardcover. Oblong octavo (25.5 x 27.5 cm), pp. 135. One of four known editions (of uncertain order), this copy is #52/275, signed and dated 1990 by Chatham with original pencil drawing on half title page. Cream-colored linen boards in matching slipcase. Includes tipped-in frontispiece of "The Seasons: August." Slipcase has moisture stain and small spot that does not affect boards.
Includes preface by the late novelist and poet Jim Harrison (the first published appearance of that piece). Other essays include "Reclaiming the Land" by Waddington, an arts writer and former director of the Steensland Gallery at St. Olaf College in Minnesota; and "Family, Art and Friends" by Chatham. Paintings are divided into California and Montana sections. Publication coincided with Chatham's 30-year retrospective at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. Orr and Torrey, D70.
Fine. $500. Order here.
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After Ikkyu and Other Poems
Boston: Shambhala Centaur Editions, 1996.
First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (19 cm), pp. 94. Gray paper boards with burgundy quarter cloth, gilt spine titling. Pictorial jacket with painting by Russell Chatham, "First High Snow Above Deep Creek." From an edition of 500. Orr and Torrey, A29.a.
A collection of Harrison's Zen-inspired poems, plus several other works.
Fine in fine jacket. $150. Order here.
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The Boy Who Ran to the Woods
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.
First Edition. Hardcover. Wide octavo (24.5 x 20 cm), pp. [32]. Signed by author on title page. Off-white speckled boards with black text. Color illustrated jacket with $18.95 original price. Miniscule indentation on bottom of front board and minor smudging to back of jacket, else fine.
Harrison's only work of children's literature: an autobiographical story of the accident that left Harrison blind in one eye, as well as the origins of his love of the natural world. Tom Pohrt, the illustrator, also illustrated the best-selling Barry Lopez book, Crow and Weasel. Orr and Torrey, A38.b.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. $70. Order here.
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Brown Dog
New York: Grove Press, 2013.
First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. 525. Signed by author on tipped-in page. Yellow boards with black titling, pictorial jacket art by Russell Chatham. Jacket has small closed tear, corners bumped.
Published toward the end of Harrison's life, this compilation collects all the author's Brown Dog stories in one volume, with the addition of one previously unpublished piece.
Very good in very good jacket. $75. Order here.
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En marge: Mémoires
Paris: 10/18, 2002.
Paperback. Signed by author on front free endpaper. 12mo (18 cm), pp. 466, [14]. Pictorial wrappers.
Includes advertisements for other Harrison titles by 10/18. Text block and first few pages with light foxing. French edition of Off to the Side.
Very good. $50. Order here.
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In Search of Small Gods
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2009.
First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 87. Signed by the author on half-title page. Light brown cloth with gilt spine titling, facsimile signature blind stamped on front board. Pictorial jacket of Russell Chatham painting, "Spring Moonrise over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains."
Harrison's 12th book of poems "is an urgent and imaginatively vigorous book, one filled with 'the spore of the gods.'" (jacket copy)
Fine in fine jacket. $350. Order here.
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Saving Daylight
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2006.
First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 123. Signed by author on title page. Tan cloth boards with gilt spine text and author's facsimile signature blind stamped on front board. Blue endpapers. Jacket featuring artwork by Russell Chatham. Small ink mark (3/16") on bottom of jacket spine, else fine. Orr and Torrey, A51.b.
Harrison's 10th book of poems that came after a 10-year break.
Fine in near fine jacket. $250. Order here.
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Selected & New Poems
New York: Delacorte / Seymour Lawrence, 1982.
First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. 212. Beige quarter cloth over gray paper boards, silver titling, and facsimile signature. Jacket painting and interior illustrations by Russell Chatham. Slight bumping to spine ends and light remainder spray to bottom of text block. Jacket has tiny closed tears along edges.
Includes poems from Plain Song, Locations, Outlyer, Letters to Yesenin and Returning to Earth, as well as 20 new works. Orr and Torrey, A16.b.
Near fine in very good jacket. $60. Order here.
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Songs of Unreason
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2011.
First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 143. Signed by author on title page. Gray cloth boards with blind and gilt stamped titling, pictorial jacket with artwork by the author's longtime friend, Russell Chatham ("Summer Storm").
In a fit of unorthodoxy, Harrison arranged for stanzas from his long-form poem, "Suites of Unreason," to be woven throughout the book.
Fine in fine jacket. $275. Order here.
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The Theory & Practice of Rivers and New Poems
Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1989.
First Clark City Press edition. Hardcover. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 76, Tan cloth with gilt spine titling, pictorial jacket. Artwork throughout by Russell Chatham.
The Library Journal writes that "[t]he long title sequence of Harrison's seventh poetry collection is a journey upward from tragedy and unconsciousness, a fitful amalgam of memory and myth, meditation and nightmare, lucidity and delirium." Orr and Torrey, A21.a.
Fine in fine jacket. $700. Order here.
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