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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

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.

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.

Random House Inc, 1991. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

About new book, unmarked in crisp dust jacket.; 225 pages.