8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0679400214 Slight rubbing and browning to jacket; slight internal browning to edges. [12], 225, [2] pages. "A portrait of vanishing worlds and what is replacing them" (jacket front flyleaf) by the noted American naturalist.
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.
Size: 8x5x1; Hardcover with DJ. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (name only...no inscription). Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows light edge wear. Presented with protective clear book jacket cover. Light shelving foxing spots/dust-dulling on book top page edge.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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.
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.
EXCELLENT FIRST PRINTING. EXCELLENT COVER IS WHOLE WITH GOOD COLOR, MINIMAL FLAWS, NOT PRICE-CLIPPED, AND NO SUN FADING. NO NAMES OR MARKS SEEN. NOT AN EX-LIBRARY DISCARD. NOT REMAINDER MARKED ON CLEAN BOOK EDGES. LOOKS UNREAD. SEE PHOTOS IF AVAILABLE. 8030 SWLS18-2-2-NF5 01.
A Nice Copy-A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Very Good Plus Condition. Boards Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Tiny Bit Of Reading Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Tiniest Bit Of Wear Along The Edges. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy.
New York: Random House, 1991. first edition as stated. Very good +/very good. 6 x 9 in, Cloth and paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean, no wear. Binding tight, text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; clean, not clipped, minor edge wear, spine a touch sunned. Hist. Stax.
Stated First Edition-first printing- Brodart jacket-" 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 Paperback edition. From the Back Cover: "Deeply gripping. with prose of characteristic grace and perfectly distilled passion." -- Washington Post Book World "Matthiessen is a great travel companion. His knowledge of plants and, animals and people is breathtaking." -- Boston Globe"
Size: 8x5x1; A short tear to dustjacket. 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.
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