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Nine-Headed Dragon River
por Matthiessen, Peter
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Very good +/near fine
- Livreiro
-
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
Boston: Shambhala, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/near fine. 288p, octavo. A very good + copy in a near fine jacket. Jacket has a tiny nick on back cover, else fine. Blue cloth boards are lightly spotted, text block foxed. Prospectus and review slip laid in. Signed by Matthiessen on title page.
Sinopse
Peter Matthiessen, distinguished novelist, naturalist, journalist, and explorer, was born in New York City and has been a commercial fisherman and charterboat captain. He participated as a diver in the worldwide search for the great white shark that culminated in his book Blue Meridian and in the film Blue Water, White Death. His fiction includes Race Rock; Partisans; Raditzer; At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for a National Book Award; and most recently Far Tortuga. His nonfiction includes The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for a National Book Award, The Snow Leopard, which won a National Book Award in 1979, and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Old New York Book Shop
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 50333
- Título
- Nine-Headed Dragon River
- Autor
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very good +
- Condição de sobrecapa
- near fine
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition, First Printing
- Editorial
- Shambhala
- Local de publicação
- Boston
- Data de publicação
- 1986
- Palavras-chave
- journal, zen, buddhism, death and dying
- Catálogos de livreiros
- TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION;
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Sobre o Vendedor
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Atlanta, Georgia
Sobre Old New York Book Shop
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
