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.

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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; fine copy. First edition.

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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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Peter Matthiessen. The Tree Where Man Was Born. First Edition.: New York: Dutton, 1972. Large 4to; 247pp; brown cloth; color pictorial jacket; near fine copy. First edition, first printing in the dark brown cloth.

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The Tetons. Interpretations of a Mountain Landscape, by Fritiof Fryxell.: Berkeley: University of Californina Press, 1938. 12mo; 77p; printed boards; illustrated with a photographic frontispiece and 12 full page photographs, plus 2 drawings and a folding map; covers with a

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Historic New Rochelle, by Herbert Nichols.: New Rochelle: Board of Education, 1938. 8vo; 212pp; gilt lettered cloth; illustrated; fore-edge lightly foxed, otherwise near fine; with map end papers and folding map as issued. First edition.

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William Smith. The Ao Naga Tribe of Assam. A Study in Ethnology and Sociology. Signed.: London: 1925. 8vo; 244pp; cloth binding with a gilt figure on the front cover; illustrated; fine copy. First edition. Presentation copy SIGNED "with the author's compliments".

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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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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 - map is fragile, worn at one edge; with the penciled signature of

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