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Random House, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition in Near Fine condition with a Near Fine dust jacket; a clean, tight copy. 8vo. - over 7¾' - 9¾'.

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 – Description and Travel / Natural History – 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

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.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Book has book plate on fffep and a bump to the upper corners of the front and back board. Dust jacket is protected by removable Brodart cover..

NY: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0679400214 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

New York: Random House, 1991. First edition / First printing. Green cloth spine, off-white paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. 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..

Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Good solid binding of green half cloth with gilt titles, cream cloth over boards, rubbed on edges. Minimal lib marks. Tight and solid sewn binding. Endpapers with maps of forest elephant and wildlife survey areas in Africa. Front endpaper has corner square clipped. Some pages wavy, clean and completely free from any markings. Jacket with illustration of mom and baby elephant, in cream and black; clean and unmarked except lib tag on spine, slight edgewear, not price-clipped. Library mylar cover removed and replaced with new archival cover. Matthiessen is renowned for his travels to some of the most exotic and inaccessible places on earth. Here he traces his journeys to West Africa, to Zaire in search of the rare Congo peacock, to Central Africa with ecologist David Western to determine the status of the small forest elephant in the Congo basin. He gives a portrait of vanishing worlds and what is replacing them. 225 pages. 8.5 x 5.8 inches. New York, Random House, 1991.

New York: Random House. Hardcover. 1991. 1st Edition. 8vo 225pp . Fine in Fine DJ.