AFRICAN SILENCES
New York: Random House, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
New York: Random House, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
New York: Random House, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. A novel about how a tribe of Stone Age natives in the Amazon are affected by various Americans.
New York: Random House, (1965). First Edition. Wraps. Advance Copy in pictorial wraps replicating the dustwrapper design. Scarce issue of this remarkable novel about how a tribe of Stone Age natives in the Amazon are affected by various Americans. SIGNED on the half-title page by the author.
New York: The Viking Press, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
New York: The Viking Press, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. Matthiessen explores ten important instances where the white man's encroachments upon the sacred grounds of Indian tribes show the tragic effects of a confrontation bound to harm both sides.
Boston: Shambhala, 1986. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected proof in blue wraps of these journals in which Matthiessen intersperses his personal account of his recovery from his wife's death through the practice of Zen with a history of Buddhism in America.
Boston: Shambhala, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. In these journals Matthiessen intersperses his personal account of his recovery from his wife's death through the practice of Zen with a history of Buddhism in America.
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. His second book, somewhat difficult to locate in this condition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, the issue bound in full green cloth, no priority known.
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. His third novel, fourth book. INSCRIBED for------ "with best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper in 1963. An uncommon early inscription.
New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. One of the first books to highlight the struggle by California farmworkers to organize a union. SIGNED by Matthiessen on the front endpaper.
New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. One of the first books to highlight the struggle by California farmworkers to organize a union.
New York: Viking Press, (1967). Robert Verity Clem. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (10" x 14") bound in full brown leather with marbled endpapers. The deluxe edition of this landmark book on shorebirds, beautifully illustrated with color plates. This is copy #253 of 350 SIGNED by editor Gardner Stout, illustrator Robert.....
New York: The Viking Press, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. His third book of nonfiction, a chronicle of the 1961 Harvard-Peabody Expedition to New Guinea. Later issue with the photographs bound correctly at the beginning and the end of the book. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
New York: The Viking Press, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. His third book of nonfiction, a chronicle of the 1961 Harvard-Peabody Expedition to New Guinea. This is the first issue with the photos bound at the center of the book. Most copies were pulled by the publisher and sold to a......
New York: The Viking Press, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. His third book of nonfiction, a chronicle of the 1961 Harvard-Peabody Expedition to New Guinea. Later issue with the photographs bound correctly at the beginning and the end of the book.
New York: The Viking Press, 1959. Bob Hines. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Matthiessen's third book, his first book of nonfiction, and "the first history of man's effect on the fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals of the North American continent." Illustrated with drawings by Bob Hines.
New York: The Viking Press, 1959. Bob Hines. First Edition. Hardcover. Matthiessen's third book, his first book of nonfiction, and "the first history of man's effect on the fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals of the North American continent." Illustrated with drawings by Bob Hines.
New York: The Viking Press, 1959. Bob Hines. First Edition. Hardcover. Matthiessen's third book, his first book of nonfiction, and "the first history of man's effect on the fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals of the North American continent." Illustrated with drawings by Bob Hines.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes Matthiessen's story "Travelin Man."