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Jim Harrison. Plain Song: poems. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, 1965.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1965). Slim 8vo. 1st simultanelous wrappered edition. Slight lean to spine. Darkening to edges of slightly toned textblock. Soiling and creasing to bottom corner half of rear end paper. Darkening to edges and spine of rubbed and toned wrappers with spots of soiling near edges. Tiny tear/crease to front wrapper bottom edge. Light wear to spine ends and forecorners. VG in wrappers.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Jim Harrison. Plain Song. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, 1965.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1965). 8vo. First simultaneous wrappered edition. Light edgewear to wraps. Some abrasion and wear to joints and tail of spine. VG in wrappers.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Harrison, Jim. Plain Song - Poems. W.W. Norton, New York, 1965.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 69pp.; SC white w/blk.; lt.rub&soil w/lt.wear on edges; PON; clean,tight pgs. Poetry
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Harrison Jim. Plain Song. W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1965.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Author's first book. Previous owners name is written inside on back of front board.
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Harrison, Jim. Plain Song. Norton, New York, 1965.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a fine dust jacket with $4.50 price intact and typical clip to lower corner of front flap. Photocopy of Norton review slip laid in. A beautiful copy of Harrison's first book.
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Harrison, Jim. Plain Song. Norton, New York, 1965.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed and inscribed to Harrison's old friends, Pat and Vesper Paton, on free front endpaper. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 69. Green cloth with gilt spine titling, author's facsimile signature blind-stamped on upper board. Off-white jacket with charcoal drawing. Jacket is discolored with moderate edgewear, tape residue on front pastedown, as though a news clipping had been attached. Boards have faint stain and sunning. Plain Song is Harrison's first collection of poetry, his first published work in book form. Front flap is clipped at bottom, as indicated in Orr & Torrey, A1.b.
Seller: Elk River Books (ABAA/ILAB), Livingston, MT, U.S.A.
Harrison, Jim. Plain Song. W. W. Norton, New York, 1965.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. 69 pp. First edition of the author's first book, a collection of poems. A near fine copy in olive green cloth in very good plus price intact dustwrapper, but with typical Norton clip to lower edge of inside front flap. Very nice example of an important literary debut.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Harrison, Jim. Plain Song. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, 1965.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 70 pp, stated First Edition, with full number line. 47 poems. Binding tight, with slight forward lean, first signature with slight protrusion on foreedge,pages white, unmarked, gray cover cloth unworn, gilt spine letters faded but legible. White DJ, unclipped original price but lower inner fr flap clipped, in protector. 5.9" x 8.6" gray cloth boards. Size: Slim Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
HARRISON, Jim. (William Eastlake). Plain Song. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, New York, 1965.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Head of spine is partly abraded (lacking about a half-inch piece from the spine), else fine in dust jacket lacking a corresponding half-inch piece from the head of spine, very good. The front flap lower corner is clipped, with the price present on the upper corner. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Harrison to William Eastlake, a noted novelist of the American Southwest, and a close friend of Harrison's. A nice association.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
HARRISON, Jim. PLAIN SONG. Norton, New York, 1965.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition, first printing of the author's first book. The dustjacket is fine. As seems to be the case with many copies, the jacket is NOT price-clipped, but the bottom of the front jacket flap is. The book is fine with just a hint of foxing on the side of the textblock. Signed by JIM HARRISON.
Seller: Euclid Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Jim Harrison. Plain Song. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1965.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on half title page. Stated First Edition with full number line. Some shelf wear, previous owners signature top free end paper. Bottom corner of the front flap clipped.
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Harrison, Jim. PLAIN SONG - INSCRIBED TO WILLIAM HJORTSBERG. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1965.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing, wrappered issue, one of 1,500 copies. Octavo (21cm); pictorial card wrappers; [6],7-69,[3]pp. Inscribed to fellow Montana author, screenwriter, and outdoorsman William "Gatz" Hjortsberg on the half-title page: "O Gatz / We are still alive." Signed "Yrs. Jim" and dated 7/87, near one of Harrison's one-eyed self-portraits. Light wear to extremities, a few tiny stains to upper half-title page; Very Good+. Harrison's first book, published simultaneously in cloth and in wrappers. Hjortsberg (1941-2017) and Harrison enjoyed a close, decades-long friendship, having first met in Northern California, and migrated to Montana in the late 1960's. Drawn by the prospect of adventure, solitude, and good fishing, they, along with Tom McGuane, were central figures in the Montana Gang - a coterie of authors, artists, and musicians whose ranks included Russell Chatham, Richard Brautigan, Don Carpenter, Bob Dattila, Peter Fonda, Jimmy Buffett, Jim Crumley, Erik Weber, and others. They transitioned from being friends to family when Hjortsberg's son, Max, married Harrison's daughter Anna. A superb association copy of this important debut. Orr & Torrey A1.c.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.