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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.…

[0-14-301359-9] 2002, 1st US edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 174pp. 4to. First US edition. Fine copy in a fine jacket. Jacket protected in loose mylar sleeve.

First edition of this stunning tribute to the birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. From the library of Peter Matthiessen. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea" (Michael Dirda). With Matthiessen's bookplate to the pastedown and his underlines and marginalia throughout. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. "The birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, their epic journeys to populate it, and the variety of their lives that unfold on it, are compellingly represented in this beautiful book" (E.O. Wilson).…