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New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Very clean beige boards with green cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear, but has tiny (almost imperceptible) dent at bottom of front board. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Maps on endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 225 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped and enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Africa.

Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1991. First (1st) Printing of the First (1st) Edition, in accordance with the Random House method of stating "First Edition" with a number line to "2". Very Fine in As New Dust Jacket. Possibly Unread. The Text Block is white, tight, straight and square, with deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind other than a discreet remainder mark on the top edge. The Binding is green quarter cloth to cream boards with a bright silver elephant design on the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to spine, and all corners square and sharp. Endpapers present maps of portions of Africa. The Dust Jacket, which is intact and flawless, is made of matte paper portraying elephants on the front and a photograph of the author on the rear panel, and the original prices (USA $21.00 Canada $27.50) are intact on the front flap. See photos. 225 + i pages. 5 3/4" x 8 3/8". Naturalist and novelist Peter Matthiessen presents here essays about his 1978 trip to Senegal, Gambia and the Ivory Coast, and then on to Zaire, and his 1986 trip to the Congo Basin in 1986. The title refers to the rapidly diminishing numbers of wild animals in Africa. ISBN 10: 0679400214 / ISBN 13: 978067940021

First edition, first printing indicated in Random House fashion with a number line from 2 to 9 with the words First Edition printed below; minor edge wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.

Stated first edition and first printing as per Random House numberline rules. Price clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps. Light foxing to the page edges; interior clean.

No marks. No wear to book or jacket. Jacket in mylar cover with original price intact on jacket flap. Simply signed by the author, without personalized inscription, on the title page. Tight and square. Apparently unread.

F/F. As new. 225 pp. First Edition.

ix. 225pp. Maps on lining papers. Green cloth spine with gilt title and white paper over boards with design imprint on front board. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Contents include: Senegal, Gabia, Ivory Coast; Zaire and the Congo Basin. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

1st Edition. pp. 225. Publisher: Random House; 1st Edition (July 20, 1991) Language: English HARDBOUND: 225 pages ISBN-10: 9780679400219 ISBN-13: 978-0679400219 Item Weight: 15.2 OUNCES. African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous books, A Tree Where Man Was Born--nominated for the National Book Award--and Sand Rivers. Through his eyes we see elephants, white rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered creatures of the wild. We share the drama of the journeys themselves, including a hazardous crossing of the continent in a light plane. And along the way, we learn of the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and economies, and threatened by the slow ecological catastrophe to which they have only begun to awaken. From the Trade SOFTCOVER edition.

Random House, 1991. First Edition / First Printing. Fine / Fine. A fine copy in 1/4 light green cloth and paper covered boards. Clean and unmarked, square with tight binding and sharp corners. Dust Jacket is fine, unclipped and without defects. Protected in mylar cover. A collection of non-fiction pieces by the renowned naturalist recounts the author's journeys to Africa. A sober and powerful account of a vanishing world. Carefully packaged and shipped in a sturdt cardboard box.

Hardbound in dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Peter Matthiessen to the previous owner on the half title page. 1st edition. Some minor wear to dust jacket. Foxing to end pages, otherwise very good.