Matthiessen Peter Et Al (16 results)

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Good. Rough. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Wraps have light wear. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First couple pages torn out (front end page, title page) - full text still intact. Stamp on outside edges. Some staining. Cover is worn with some general scuffing and shelf wear. Binding is solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine (-). Two books from the Shambala Dragon editions line sold together. Journals (1987), Matthiessen, 0877734011, Fine Minus: Journey deep into the heart of American and Japanese Zen. Condition notes: 288 numbered pp +1; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, decorative eps; edges foxed. Cover: glossy blue wraps, b/w symbol front, red/white titles front/spine; very light edge/shelfwear. Dictionary (1991), Kohn, 0877735204, Very Good: with over 1500 entries and 46 illustrations the most complete compact reference work of its kind available in the English language. Cover: glossy black wraps, b/w artwork and red/white titles front, white titles spine; modest edge/shelfwear.…

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial blue wrappers. The binding is very lightly bumped & slightly rubbed at the extremities. 251 & [5] pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including 8 pages of portraits by David McDermott and Peter McGough. Near fine. Among the contents of this issue are interviews with Harold Brodkey and Reynolds Price; fiction by Susan Minot and Paul West; an article by Donald Hall about his teachers Archibald MacLeish and Yvor Winters; and poetry by Zbigniew Herbert, Charles Tomlinson, April Bernard and Kuroda Saburo.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 309 pages with 14 essays on the natural history of Hawaii. Keywords: Essays, Natural History, Hawaii, Environment, Ecology, Landscape. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. SIGNED by T. C. Boyle at his story "Greasy Lake." Includes interviews with James Merrill and Philip Larkin on the art of poetry, poetry by Merrill, Charles Simic and Tom Disch and others. Fiction by T. C. Boyle, Edmund White, and a section of Selected Letters of Archibald MacLeish. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Very good+ in stiff illustrated wrappers.…

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Literary Journal, softcover; 224 pages. Condition: Fine, with no marks or writing to the book. Light rubbing to the cover surfaces. Binding is tight and square.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Large Octavo, 204 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine black with blue and lime green lettering. Exterior has slight wear including few instances of chips to the head/tail edges, minor soiling and slight age toning to the flaps. Boards have very slight wear including minor edge wear. Mild tilt to the spine. Text block has slight wear including age toning with slight soiling to the edges. Pictorial end papers. Illustrated. Minimal age toning to the interior. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L (ND-L). 1401156. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Letterpress printed portfolio produced for members of the Book Club of California by Richard Siebert. Master printer Jerry Reddan of Arion Press published 68 poetry chapbooks and 21 broadsides under his own Tangram private press imprint between 1987 and 2015. Poets published included Robert Sund, Jim Dodge, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure, Keith Abbott, Gary Paul Nabhan, Joseph Stroud, Barry Lopez and many others. Broadsides or Poemcards of poets included Gary Snyder, Jane Hirshfield, David Meltzer, Clifford Burke, Joanne Kyger, Peter Matthiessen, Clark Coolidge, Robert Sund, and others. This portfolio includes a 40 page booklet with an essay titled 'Jerry Reddan's Tangram' by Jerry Martien and Christopher Stinehour in conversation with Jerry Reddan on the history of Tangram. Also included are color photographs of selected books and facsimiles of Tangram Poemcards printed on a variety of French papers. Of special interest to the collector is a complete checklist of Tangram publications. A beautiful production. See photos. Fine, as new.…

First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [20],21-291,[5]pp. Modest external wear, gentle sunning to spine, with light dust-soil to rear wrapper; contents fresh; Very Good+. Contents include an excerpt from Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, and contributions by Seamus Heaney ("The Art of Poetry LXXV"), Peter Matthiessen ("Lost Man's River"), Robert Pinsky ("The Art of Poetry LXXVI"), Elias Canetti, Marilyn Hacker, and others. 7818.…

hardcover. Condition: near fine. 2 volumes in slipcase. Profusely illustrated with finely printed b/w photographs by many different artists. Some pencil drawings by Ralph Carpentier. Large square 4tos, olive drab cloth with inset photographs, matching slipcase. (United States: The Rock Foundation, 1986). Limited edition. Spines evenly sunned; some slight & light scattered foxing, and a stain on box, otherwise a near fine copy of this scarce and fascinating book. …

first edition).Small folio,270 pp.,colour plates, inscription, a fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition.

Limited edition, #341/350. Folio; 270 pp.; illustrated with thirty two color plates after paintings by Robert Verity Clem. Top edge gilt. Fine in full brown leather, in slipcase. SIGNED by Matthiessen, Clem, Stout and Plamer. ornithology.