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. (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.