Letters to Yesenin Tapa blanda - 1973

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Fremont: The Sumac Press, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. Fremont: The Sumac Press, 1973. First Edition (paperback issue). Octavo (23cm);62pp. Illustrated wraps with $2.45 price to rear. Covers scuffed along spine and lightly edgeworn, with some bumping at corners and tail and some general surface smudging. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Harrison's fifth collection of poems, set up as correspondence with the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, who committed suicide in 1925 in his Leningrad hotel room after writing his final poem "Goodbye my friend, goodbye" in his own blood. 1000 copies of this paperback were issued along with 100 numbered and 26 lettered hardcover copies.

Fremont, Michigan : Sumac Press. Clean, uncracked softcover in very good condition; rubbing and light shelf wear. INSCRIBED by the author. . Good Plus . Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1973.

Sumac Press, 1973. First Editiion . Paperback. VG+. one of 1000 copies inscription reads : Patest an unsuccessful suicide note with love from Jimmy some light rubbing to front panel and a light reading crease along the spine

Fremont, Mi:: Sumac Press. Very Good; A tight clean copy with minor scuffing and a hint of soiling . to edges of pictorial wrappers. Text is fine and bright!. 1973. Stated 1st Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0912090324. 62 p.; Trade paperback. One of only 1000 softcover copies printed. Laid in is an original B&W Kodak print (date-stamped "Jun 71") that shows Harrison standing full figure, squinting at the camera while holding a very large fish. One of his beloved dogs stands nearby, and the nose of an old car can be seen in the background. The 3" x 3" photo does have some moderate wrinkling and creasing, but the image is strong and clear. A scrap of brown mailing envelope is also laid in that shows two postal cancellation stamps (dated "June 23 1977") from "Lake Leeland, MI" --Harrison's old stomping grounds!. Catalogs: Literature.

First edition. Thin octavo. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. Very good. One of 1000 copies, signed and inscribed on half-title page by Harrison to director Hal Ashby: "To Hal Ashby with admiration - Jim Harrison." Harrison (b. 1937) American author, poet and screenwriter; received a B.A. and M.A. in comparative Literature from Michigan State University; Assistant Professor of English at State University of New York at Stony Brook, before resigning to write full time. Ashby (1936-88) American director; won an Academy Award for "In the Heat of the Night" (as editor); directed "Harold and Maude" (1971), "The Last Detail" (1973), "Bound for Glory" (1976), "Coming Home" (1978), etc.