The Theory and Practice of Rivers (Signed limited edition)
- SIGNED
- Seattle: Winn Books, 1986
Seattle: Winn Books, 1986. First edition. Fine. One of 350 copies, signed by Jim Harrison on the title-page. Publisher's natural cloth boards with green cloth spine. Matching slipcase titled in gilt. 53 pp., with illustrations by Russell Chatham throughout. A Fine copy in like slipcase.
Though Jim Harrison is best remembered for his novellas (most notably his collection Legends of the Fall), he was also a prolific poet of over a dozen full-length collections and several more chapbooks. The Theory and Practice of Rivers collects eleven his poems ornamented with illustrations by Russell Chatham, Harrison's close friend and a renowned landscape painter in his own right. A contemporary review from Outside magazine compared the collection to “moving water, the search for consolation and meaning in the sublime rightness of wild landscape.”
Copper Canyon Press, which also published several other collections of Harrison's work, issued a new edition of The Theory and Practice of Rivers with an introduction by Rebecca Solnit in May 2025. Solnit called the collection both "elegy (inspired by the death of Harrison’s sixteen-year-old niece) and loose memoir (filled with thought that leaps intuitively across subjects, recalling myriad experiences, places, and encounters)" (Copper Canyon Press website).
Orr & Torrey A19.a. Fine.
Though Jim Harrison is best remembered for his novellas (most notably his collection Legends of the Fall), he was also a prolific poet of over a dozen full-length collections and several more chapbooks. The Theory and Practice of Rivers collects eleven his poems ornamented with illustrations by Russell Chatham, Harrison's close friend and a renowned landscape painter in his own right. A contemporary review from Outside magazine compared the collection to “moving water, the search for consolation and meaning in the sublime rightness of wild landscape.”
Copper Canyon Press, which also published several other collections of Harrison's work, issued a new edition of The Theory and Practice of Rivers with an introduction by Rebecca Solnit in May 2025. Solnit called the collection both "elegy (inspired by the death of Harrison’s sixteen-year-old niece) and loose memoir (filled with thought that leaps intuitively across subjects, recalling myriad experiences, places, and encounters)" (Copper Canyon Press website).
Orr & Torrey A19.a. Fine.