Published by Pantheon, New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 0375422927 ISBN 13: 9780375422928
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 1st Printing. 10 1/2 x 101/2 inches. 176 pages. Stated first edition on copyright page, complete number line (first printing). Condition of the book is Very Good+; looks new on all points. Dust jacket is Very Good; 2 small tears at top edge. STK.
Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 0375421823 ISBN 13: 9780375421822
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 176 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with 120 full-colour illustrations. "Internationally acclaimed wildlife artist and naturalist Robert Bateman has sketched and painted bird life in every corner of the globe. And a lifetime of observing an extraordinary range of species has given him a wealth of knowledge about bird habitats, behavior, and survival skills. Now, in this unique volume, Robert Bateman's newest paintings are combined with his insightful reflections on bird life in splendid pages that will delight nature and art lovers alike. This personal birding odyssey begins atBateman's easel on an island off Canada's Pacific coast, where herons, kingfishers, and bald eagles pass by his studio windows. From there it proceeds to a variety of North American destinations ranging from a seabird colony on Alaska's Pribil of Islands to the waterways of Florida's Everglades. Bateman has also explored many international wildlife sanctuaries and his unforgetttable experiences there are re-created in evocative color painting and vivid first-person recollections. Lavishly illustrated and informatively written, Birds is an intimate appreciation of some of the planet's most beautiful and fascinating creatures by an artist who has been capturing them on canvas for over forty years." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1961
Seller: A Few Books More. . ., Billings, MT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. two sections of b/w photographs bound into text. Maps of South America and Middle Peru on end papers. Jacket design by Jean Zallinger. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8 vo, 280 pp inc Index. Condition: Black cloth, light fading to bottom edges. Interior clean, no marks or names. Three of four corners are square; binding is square and firm. End papers clean, small gold sticker from "Phillips Book Store, Bozeman, Montana" is near spine inside back cover. Jacket is not price clipped ($6.50), is quite worn at top of spine and a few inches along back cover. Roger Tory Peterson's blurb on back panel.
Published by Mountaineers Books, Seattle, WA, 2003
ISBN 10: 0898869099 ISBN 13: 9780898869095
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Seattle, WA: Mountaineers Books, 2003. First Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's cloth in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket; 176pp.; color photographs throughout. Light wear and dust-soil, else Near Fine. Signed on front flyleaf by Banerjee and essay contributors Fran Mauer and Debbie S. Miller.
Published by Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1992
ISBN 10: 0871563584 ISBN 13: 9780871563583
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Oblong wrappers. 89pp. Photographs by Boyd Norton. Foreword by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Afterword by David Brower. Edited by Chez Liley. Edgewear else near fine. Signed by Peter Matthiessen.
Published by New York: Harry N.Abrams, Inc., [1992]., 1992
ISBN 10: 0810938286 ISBN 13: 9780810938281
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Mary Frank (illustrator). oblong 4to. pp. 120. 71 illus. (23 colour). cloth. dw. First Edition.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1967
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Clem, Robert Verity (illustrator). Sliht Browning on DJ Edges, Coffee Table Size Book With Prints That Can Be Framed.
First edition. Hardcover. A child's attractive/restrained bookplate (unsigned) on the corner of the front fixed endpaper, otherwise very good in pictorial boards as issued, in an added clear archival jacket for this copy. Illustrated in colour by William Pene Du Bois. An inspired British re-titling of the American edition called "Seal Pool", with different cover art to the US edition. A scarce Matthiessen title, his only children's book, clever, funny and poignant.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1968
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Robert Verity Clem (illustrator). First Edition. 270 pp. Original tan cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. DJ has a 3/4" closed tear from top edge of front panel. Price clipped. The 32 paintings, in opaque water color, are reproduced in six-color lithography. Contents very nice.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1967
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Full Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Robert Verity Clem (illustrator). Full tan cloth with brown labels and gilt lettering on spine. Book is in near new condition. The jacket is unprice-clipped ($22.50) and one half inch closed tear a the top of the front panel and another closed tear on the back panel. VERY slight rubbing to the spine. Else EXCELLENT book in VERY GOOD PLUS jacket. Peter Matthiessen (born May 22, 1927 in New York City) is an American naturalist and author of historical fiction and non-fiction. Matthiessen's work is known for its meticulous approach to research. He frequently focuses on American Indian issues and history, as in his detailed study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. Along with George Plimpton, Harold Humes, Thomas Guinzburg and Donald Hall, he founded the literary magazine The Paris Review in 1953. In 1979, his book The Snow Leopard won the Contemporary Thought category of the National Book Award. His novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965), about an American missionary coming to a South American tribe, was made into a major Hollywood movie in 1991. His work on oceanographic research, "Blue Meridian" became the film "Blue Water, White Death," which is widely considered to have inspired Peter Benchley to write "Jaws" in 1974. Matthiessen has been the official State Author of New York, 1995-1997. More recently, Matthiessen's fiction trilogy Killing Mr. Watson, Lost Man's River and Bone by Bone was based on accounts of Florida planter Edgar J. Watson's death shortly after the Southwest Florida Hurricane of 1910. Matthiessen became a Zen practitioner and later a Buddhist priest. He lives in Sagaponack, New York. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1967
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine -. Clem, Robert Verity (illustrator). Limited First Edition. Limited edition of 350 copies, this #168. Signed by all four contributors on the limitation. Full leather. Near fine copy, spine a wee darkened, in original publisher's cloth slipcase.
Published by NORTH POINT PRESS., NY, 2000
ISBN 10: 0865475768 ISBN 13: 9780865475762
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Peter Matthiessen on the half-title page. (Dated in early 2000 with place being "Sagaponack.") Near fine in a priceclipped, otherwise fine dj. (Mild bump at bottom tip of one corner) (GC).
Published by VIKING., NY, 1967
ISBN 10: 0670641049 ISBN 13: 9780670641048
First Edition
Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in a near fine dj. Folio.(14 1/4" X 10 1/4") (Light trace of rubbing on front panel of dj. Couple of short edge nicks in dj.) Features 32 color plates. An above average condition copy of this wear prone title. (LR).
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1967
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine -. Clem, Robert Verity (illustrator). Limited First Edition. Limited edition of 350 copies, this #256. Signed by all four contributors on the limitation . Full leather. Prospectus laid-in. Near fine copy, in original publisher's cloth slipcase.