New York: Random House, 1991. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 225 pages. A non-fiction work about Matthiessen's various journeys to Africa.Matthiessen is the author two win National Book Awards for non-fiction and fiction for "The Snow Leopard" and "Shadow Country" respectively. A clean near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine in a near fine dust jacket.
NY: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly rubbed.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679400214 . Cloth-backed boards, map endpapers. Account of the author's wildlife surveys In 1978 in Ivory Coast, Liberia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and the Gambia and in 1986 in Kenya, Zaire, Tanzania, Congo, Angola, Gabon, Central African Republic, and Sudan. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages .
MATTHIESSEN, Peter: African Silences. New York, Random House, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 225 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Africa â Description and Travel / Natural History â Africa. Book and jacket condition: Very Good Minus. A bit of foxing to the top-side of the book, but no other visible imperfections. Tiny tears to the center-top and bottom of dust wrapper. Price unclipped at the interior front flap. Overall a copy in near first-rate condition with unmarked pages. A moving chronicle of travels made in the Dark Continent by the internationally acclaimed author of The Snow Leopard and At Play in the Fields of the Lord. An important contribution to the travel genre. ISBN: 0679400214
Hardcover in dust jacket. Green cloth spine on gray boards with silver gilt illustration, pristine. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket crisp and bright, small puncture to jacket at spine top. Book is firm in binding, unread, 225 pages. Map illustrated endpapers, pristine. Matthiessen recounts two trips to West Africa in the company of primatologist Gilbert Boese and ecologist David Western. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1991. Stated First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679400214 . Hardcover in dust jacket. Green cloth spine on gray boards with silver gilt illustration, pristine. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket crisp and bright, small puncture to jacket at spine top. Book is firm in binding, unread, 225 pages. Map illustrated endpapers, pristine. Matthiessen recounts two trips to West Africa in the company of primatologist Gilbert Boese and ecologist David Western. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
225pp, endpaper maps. Or white papered boards with olive cloth spine, in jacket. Jacket price clipped with very slight edge weat and slightest of fading to spine. Matthiessen shares his journeys in Africa over many years, and shows us vanishing worlds. Along the way we are made aware of the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and threatened by the ravaging of land and wildlife.
Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Peter Matthiessen's custom book label inside. From the collection of American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and CIA officer Peter Matthiessen.
Random House. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Peter Matthiessen's custom book label inside. From the collection of American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and CIA officer Peter Matthiessen.
Number line from 2 to 9 with the words First Edition printed below indicates a Random House first edition, first printing; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectable condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.
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