HARRISON, Jim. Legends of the Fall. London: Collins. 1980. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Publisher’s burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean, with a handful of minor spots to the textblock top edge. The dust jacket unpriced, complete and fine, with neat slivers of toning to flaps from a production issue, presumably. A very sharp example.
Harrison’s most famous book, which comprises three novellas, ‘Revenge’, the titular ‘Legends of the Fall’, and ‘The Man who Gave Up His Gun’. Set across North America and Europe, the three novellas span more than a century, through both World Wars, Prohibition, and postwar Sicilian gang warfare. Two of the novellas have been adapted to the screen—Revenge (1990) starring Kevin Costner and Anthony Quinn, and Legends of the Fall (1994) starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins. Quinn appeared in both, in fact, and Harrison co-wrote the scripts to both.
HARRISON, Jim. Legends of the Fall. London: Collins. 1980. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Publisher’s burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean, with a handful of minor spots to the textblock top edge. The dust jacket unpriced, complete and fine, with neat slivers of toning to flaps from a production issue, presumably. A very sharp example.
Harrison’s most famous book, which comprises three novellas, ‘Revenge’, the titular ‘Legends of the Fall’, and ‘The Man who Gave Up His Gun’. Set across North America and Europe, the three novellas span more than a century, through both World Wars, Prohibition, and postwar Sicilian gang warfare. Two of the novellas have been adapted to the screen—Revenge (1990) starring Kevin Costner and Anthony Quinn, and Legends of the Fall (1994) starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins. Quinn appeared in both, in fact, and Harrison co-wrote the scripts to both.
