FAR TORTUGA [Signed]

Matthiessen, Peter

ISBN 10: 039449461X / ISBN 13: 9780394494616

Published by Random House, New York, New York, 1975

About this Item

Octavo, 408 pages. In Good Plus condition with Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Spine is robin's egg blue with dark blue and black lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$10.95" on front flap, has mild age toning and soiling along rear cover, fore edges, and mild shelving wear along extremities. Boards have mild shelving wear and sun-fading along extremities, mild foxing and age-toning along tail edges, and mild chipping and tearing to tail fore corners. Text block edges moderately foxed (interior unaffected), head edge dyed blue and has mild scuffing and small liquid droplet stains, tail edge has moderate scuffing and light waviness. Signed flat on title page by Peter Matthiessen. Shelved Room C. 1397004. Special Collections.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FAR TORTUGA [Signed]
• Publisher: Random House, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039449461X
• ISBN 13: 9780394494616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, Second Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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About the Author

Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder ofThe Paris Review. BesidesAt Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he has published six other works of fiction, includingFar TortugaandKilling Mister Watson. Mr. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer has resulted in numerous widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among themThe Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, andThe Snow Leopard, which won it. He died in 2014."