Editor's note: Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a poet, novelist, essayist, screen-writer, sporting writer, editor, and translator. Much of his work is set in sparsely populated regions of the West and Midwest. As Charlie Brice wrote in a review in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of The English Major, “Harrison's... appreciation for life's pleasures, his hallowing of the every day, his celebration of food and smells and nature and color, combine to produce a feast of what makes us human and of what makes it so hard to leave our troubled planet.” Jim Harrison was best known for his novella Legends of the Fall which was adapted into a Edward Zwick-directed movie with Brad Pitt, Julia Ormond, and Anthony Quinn, but he was a master of his craft who wrote equally well about nature, food, hunting, fishing, and travel. He was that rare talent who co... [more In Memoriam: Jim Harrison (1937-2016)]
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The End of The AffairFirst Editionby GREENE, Graham
London : William Heinemann , 1951
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Edgar Miller and The Hand-Made Home: Chicago's Forgotten Renaisance ManFirst Editionby MILLER, Edgar, Richard Cahan, Michael Williams, and Alexander Vertikoff
Chicago, IL : CityFiles Press , 2009
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Transition: A Quarterly Review Number 25, Fall 1936First Editionby JOLAS, Eugene (editor) Joan Miro, Harry Brown, Dylan Thomas, Paul Strand, Franz Kafka, L. Moholy Nagy, Henri Cartier Bresson, et al.
New York : Transition , 1936
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Urban Anomalies: Chicago (Signed First Edition)Signed First Editionby CRANE, Barbara and John B. Rohrbach
Santa Fe, NM : Barbara Crane Educational Trust , 2002
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The Great GatsbyFirst Editionby FITZGERALD, F. Scott
New York : Modern Library , 1934
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Candlestick Point (Signed Limited Edition)Signed First Editionby BALTZ, Lewis and Gus Blaisdell
New York and Tokyo : Aperture and Gallery Min , 1989
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