HARRISON, Jim (1937–2016). A pair of first editions, including:

A Good Day to Die. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1973]. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth backstrip over orange boards, spine lettered in gilt (minor occasional rubbing); publisher’s printed dust jacket (minor rubbing, toning to jacket edges). FIRST EDITION OF HARRISON’S SECOND NOVEL.

Dalva. New York: E. P. Dutton, [1988]. 8vo. Publisher’s white cloth backstrip over green boards, front board and spine stamped in gilt (minor occasional rubbing); original dust jacket (minor occasional rubbing and toning). FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF HARRISON’S BEST–KNOWN NOVELS, SIGNED BY HARRISON ON THE TITLE–PAGE.

Harrison is considered one of the finest writers of novellas of the twentieth–century (his most famous work, Legends of the Fall (1979) consists of 3 novellas).