Peter Matthiessen. African Silences. Signed Proof

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New York: Random House, 1991. 8vo; 225pp; card covers; fine copy. First edition, advance uncorrected proof, SIGNED by author on title page.

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Peter Matthiessen. African Silences. Signed Proof

Name: Peter Matthiessen. African Silences. Signed Proof
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Peter Matthiessen. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. Supressed First Edition: New York: Viking Press, 1983. 8vo; 628pp; cloth backed boards; color pictorial jacket; fine copy. The true first edition which was supressed.

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Peter Matthiessen. Indian Country. Signed Proof: New York: Viking Press, 1984. 8vo; 310pp; printed card covers; fine copy. Advance uncorrected proof, SIGNED by the author.

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Peter Matthiessen. Nine-Headed Dragon River. Signed: Boston: Shambhala, 1986. 8vo; 288pp; gilt decorative cloth; decorative jacket; fine copy. First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

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$150

Peter Matthiessen. On the River Styx and Other Stories. Signed Proof: New York: Random House, 1989. 8vo; 208pp; printed card covers; fine copy. Advance uncorrected proof, SIGNED by the author.

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Peter Matthiessen. The Snow Leopard. First edition: New York: Viking Press, 1978. 8vo; 338pp; cloth; color pictorial jacket. First edition.

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Peter Matthiessen. The Snow Leopard. Signed Proof: New York: Viking, 1978. 8vo; 278pp; printed card covers; fine copy. Unrevised proofs, Confidential, SIGNED by Matthiessen on the half title.

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Peter Matthiessen. Under the Mountain Wall. a chronicle of two seasons in the stone age. Signed: New York: Viking Press, 1962. 8vo; 256pp + a section of photographs; boards with pictorial jacket. First edition; very good copy. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

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W. Somerset Maugham. Strictly Personal. First edition: London: William Heinemann, 1942. 12mo; cloth with gilt lettered spine; decorative jacket; jacket worn at edges and corners, some offsetting, short note on front end paper, title page and frontispiece

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Susan Meyer. Norman Rockwell's World War II Impressions from the Home Front. Signed: USAA: 1991. Folio; bound in leather over boards; with numerous color & b/w illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Deluxe edition SIGNED by both Meyer and General McDermott on the title page. Fine copy in

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James Michener. Tales of the South Pacific. Limited 1st edition Signed: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. 12mo; gilt decorative cloth, lightly rubbed. Special edition, limited to 1500 copies SIGNED by Michener.

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Henry Miller. Insomnia or the Devil at Large. Signed: New York: Doubleday, 1974. 4to; illustrated in color and b/w; bound in full leather; fine in slipcase. Limited to 150 copies, this being one of 100 copies in English. The binding is full Moroccan

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Charles Mountford. The Dreamtime Book. Australian Aboriginal Myths. Signed: Sydney: 1973. Folio; bound in orange cloth with gilt lettered spine; with numerous color illustrations by Ainslie Roberts; covers lightly rubbed and soiled, otherwise near fine. Deluxe edition

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Pablo Picasso. Trozo de Piel. Limited Edition: Cambridge: The Bow & Arrow Press, 1979. 4to; original illustrations by Picasso; fine copy. The first English translation of the poems, and apparently the first appearance in book form of the drawings

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William Smith. The Ao Naga Tribe of Assam. A Study in Ethnology and Sociology. Signed: London: 1925. 8vo; illustrated; cloth binding with a gilt figure on the front cover. First edition. Presentation copy SIGNED "with the author's compliments".

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John Updike. In the Cemetery High Above Shillington. Signed: Concord: William B. Ewert, 1995. Tall 8vo; bound in leather backed boards; illustrated by Barry Moser; fine in clam shell box. One of fifteen copies specially bound and boxed; included is a portfolio

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Geoffrey Wakeman. Bradbury & Evans. Color Printers. Limited Edition: Oxford: The Plough Press, 1984. 4to; 25pp; cloth backed marbled boards; illustrated with six small engravings, plus two tipped in color plates; fine copy. Limited to 100 numbered copies. The two

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Mary Wheelwright. The Myths and Prayers of the Great Star Chant and the Myth of the Coyote Chant.: Santa Fe: Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, 1956. 4to; 190pp; silver letered cloth; illustrated with 22 paintings and illustrations; covers lightly marked, otherwise near fine. First edition. Donated

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George W. Wingate. Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback. First edition with map: New York: O. Judd Co, 1886. 12mo; 250pp + vi adverts; gilt lettered cloth; illustrated; with the folded map in a pocket at the rear; with the pencilled signature of A. Offney. A gently used copy.

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