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Published by Collins Harvill, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0002725193ISBN 13: 9780002725194
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. this book is a powerful and moving portrait of the fishermen of eastern Long Island where the author has lived for 35 years. This is the story of a tragedy that can and does happen anywhere, but has never been described before such passion and rare conviction. In their own harsh, sparing cadences, it is the story of the men and women who is calling with their fathers' and forefathers' before them: of their anger and the world and at the forces dividing them from their hard held traditions; of how so recklessly politics, money and progress can conspire to destroy a community, a way of life, a proud history.  dust jacket blurb the top and front edge have a couple of grubby marks, internally the book is clean and free of annotation. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; Social Sciences; United States of America; anthropology. ISBN: 0002725193. ISBN/EAN: 9780002725194. Inventory No: 0261611.
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Published by Random House (NY), 1986
ISBN 10: 0394552806ISBN 13: 9780394552804
Seller: Xander Meadow Books, Marshfield, VT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Very Good, unmarked copy in Fine, unclipped dust jacket, protected in mylar sleeve; stated first edition; appears to be slight wrinkling of pages in upper corner near hinge.
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First edition. Hardcover. Just a hint of foxing/toning on the top and fore edges, otherwise fine in fine (sterling price intact). Matthiessen's moving portrait of the fishermen of eastern Long Island. The UK edition does not include the photographs of the US edition, but this is a handsome, well-bound book nonetheless, and an important account.
First U.K. edition. Fine in fine, faintly rubbed dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Published by Collins Harvill, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0002725193ISBN 13: 9780002725194
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First UK. VG/VG. 8vo. original grey boards gilt (slightly rubbed & bumped, a few marks, prev. owner's name to FFE) in dustwrapper priced £15.00 net (rubbed and a little creased, some edge fraying); pp. xvi, 336 (last blank). A very good copy.
Published by Random, NY, 1986
ISBN 10: 0394552806ISBN 13: 9780394552804
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: NVG. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book has one bumped corner and cover edge fading thus nearly very good. The has edgeweqar. Signed by Author(s). Book.
Published by Rock Foundation, NP, 1986
First Edition
Set Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1986). Oblong 4to. 2 volume set. 1st edition. Good, clean textblocks. Minor edgewear to cloth covered boards with fading to both spines. Slight fading to edges of cloth covered slipcase with peeling to front panel bottom corners. VG in VG slipcase.
Published by Rock Foundation, 1986
ISBN 10: 0937691003ISBN 13: 9780937691007
Seller: Snow Crane Media, Millburn, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Box Set. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Fine, Pages clean and bright. Bindings tight, Covers clean. No remainder marks. Two Volumes in Slipcase. No shelf wear, no surprises. Same day Shping. Book.
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Published by The Rock Foundation, USA, 1986
First Edition Signed
Cloth. Condition: Good. First edition. Oblong clothbound quartos. Two volume set with photo inset to each volume. Text by Matthiessen with pencil drawings by Ralph Carpentier. Books depict the lives and work of Long Island fisherman in text and black and white photographs. Copy 230 of five hundred special deluxe copies in oversize oblong clothbound volumes. SIGNED by Matthiessen on the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED by him to his father and dated in year of publication. Condition of this set is only good with considerable spotting to cloth covers and some age spotting to preliminary pages. Lacking the matching slipcase. Sold in as-is condition.
Published by The Rock Foundation, New York, 1986
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Doug Kuntz, Dan Budnik, Martine Franck, Jean Gaumy, Evelyn Hofer, Danny Lyon, Gilles Peress, Lynn Johnson (illustrator). First Edition. 2 Volumes in Slipcase. Heavy gray cloth clamshell case. Olive cloth boards, unpaginated contents. Titles in silver on spine. One volume devoted to Matthiessen's writing and one to accompanying photographs. Mild fading around slipcase extremities. Mottling to cloth of both boards of Photographs volume and back board of Matthiessen volume, but this appears common among copies from this edition. Foxing on first blank white page in Photographs volume but no evidence of foxing around or on photos. Foxing on pages prior to table of contents in Matthiessen volume, including the title page, on which Matthiessen has signed it. Copy 64 from limited edition of 500. Photographs volume contains 163 half-tone photos, reproduced one per page or one per two pages. Edition includes laid-in photo print by Lynn Johnson, housed in an olive, textured-paper folding chemise. A beautifully presented edition which honors both Matthiessen's writing and the Long Island fisherman who are the subject of the work. Signed by Author. Folio.
Published by (The Rock Foundation, np/1986), 1986
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Quarto. Pesentation copy. Limited to 500 copies numbered and signed by the author. The present copy is #426 Signed twice and with a Birthday greeting to a close friend. "For." /My excessively generous/ and altogether excellent/fishing partner, drinking buddy/and fine-feathered friend=/Cheers, Abrazos/Love/"Big Dog"/(and Happy Birthday)/ dated March 2013. This book was given by the author to his friend on his birthday a year before his death. Two volumes plus a matted black and white photograph laid into a folder. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic images of commercial fishing by rmen and their struggle for survival throughout history. This was a way of life for many families living on South Fork Long Island which has become a dying business. Included are maps of the fishing areas, photographs of various people and places. Bound in gray cloth with photographic image inset, light foxing to endpapers, a damp stain to the upper board of volume two, just a hint of mustiness but a very good set housed within a cloth covered clamshell lettered in blue foil.
Published by The Rock Foundation, 1986
First Edition Signed
First edition, number 117 of 500 copies. Olive/gray cloth with photographic only to front panels. Signed by Peter Matthiessen. Some light to moderate foxing to first and last leaf of each volume, else fine in fine publisher's clamshell box.
Published by The Rock Foundation, [New York], 1986
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition, no. 106 of 500 copies of the Deluxe Edition, printed by the Stinehour Press, with an extra SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH by Lynn Johnson. Text volume illustrated with photographs + extra volume of 163 half-tone reproductions after photographs by Doug Kuntz, Dan Budnik, Martine Franck, Jean Gaumy, Evelyn Hofer, Danny Lyon, Gilles Peress. 2 vols. Oblong Folio. George Plimpton's Copy. "Here within sight of the bue shadow of New England's industrial seaboard ten miles to the north . the fishermen go their traditional way down to the sea. They are tough, resourceful, self-respecting, and also (some say) hideound and cranky, too independent to organize for their own survival." Signed by the author in volume I, and with a photograph of the sulphur bottom whale, illustrated at page two opposite the preface, signed by Lynn Johnson. A beautiful book and a fine literary association. From the library of George A. Plimpton, longtime friend of Peter Matthiessen (who was one of the founding editors of the Paris Review) The two volumes bound in gray cloth with photo on upper cover, the signed photo matted in paper wrapper, all encased in grey cloth folding box. Photograph and folder Books fine (slight fading to upper cover of vol. I), box with light soiling and toning Text volume illustrated with photographs + extra volume of 163 half-tone reproductions after photographs by Doug Kuntz, Dan Budnik, Martine Franck, Jean Gaumy, Evelyn Hofer, Danny Lyon, Gilles Peress. 2 vols. Oblong Folio First edition, no. 106 of 500 copies of the Deluxe Edition, printed by the Stinehour Press, with an extra SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH by Lynn Johnson.