Peter matthiessen author (20 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 208 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. revised edition. 368 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. revised edition. 368 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 320 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. revised edition. 368 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. revised edition. 368 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 7.75x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, 247 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is blue with black lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, front flap clipped at head fore corner but has "$17.50" price along tail edge; mild general soiling and shelving wear along spine head and tail. Boards fully bound in publisher's brown cloth and have mild rubbing wear along tail fore corners. Textblock edges have moderate age-toning and foxing; interior has mild foxing along endpapers and throughout text, mild age-toning discoloration along extremities throughout text, and moderate foxing on half-title page and front free-endpaper verso. Signed flat by Peter Matthiessen on title page. Shelved Room C. 1400453. Special Collections.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Large octavo, 213 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is blue with teal and gray lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price clipped from front flap, has small open tear and mild creasing along front tail edge, moderate sun-bleaching along spine. Boards fully bound in beige cloth and have mild general foxing, mild shelving wear and discoloration along spine head and tail. Textblock edges have mild foxing; faint foxing along tail edges of half-title and title pages. Signed flat on title page by Peter Matthiessen. Shelved Room C. 1400580. Special Collections.…

Hardcover. Advance Reading Copy. Long octavo, 89 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is white with black lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price clipped from front flap, has mild shelving wear and bumping to fore corners. Boards fully bound in publisher's navy cloth. Contains publisher's ARC inserts laid-in between rear of dust jacket and mylar covering. Signed flat on title page by Peter Matthiessen. Shelved Room C. 1400557. Special Collections.…

Hardcover. First Edition, Third Printing. Octavo, 349 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is black and white with white and red lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$27.50" on front flap, has mild general rubbing wear, mild shelving wear along extremities, and mild age toning along head edges, including flaps. Boards have mild rubbing wear along quarter cloth binding and mild shelving wear along extremities. Signed flat and dated "2/19/02" on title page by Peter Matthiessen. Shelved Room C. 1397172. Special Collections.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. [14], 539, [7] pages. Endpaper maps. Author's Note. Signed by the author on the title page. Slight weakness noted between verso and Author's Note that has been restrengthened with glue. Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 - April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher, and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). He was also a prominent environmental activist. Matthiessen's nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably The Snow Leopard (1978) and American Indian issues and history, such as a detailed and controversial study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983). His fiction was adapted for film: the early story "Travelin' Man" was made into The Young One (1960) by Luis Buñuel and the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) into the 1991 film of the same name. In 2008, at age 81, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction for Shadow Country. According to critic Michael Dirda, "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea." Peter Matthiessen is one of the few American writers ever nominated for the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction. When his novel Killing Mister Watson was published in 1990, the reviews were extraordinary. It was heralded as "a marvel of invention . . . a virtuoso performance" (The New York Times Book Review) and a "novel [that] stands with the best that our nation has produced as literature" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now Peter Matthiessen brings us the second novel in his Watson trilogy, a project that has been nearly twenty years in the writing. A story of epic scope and ambition, Lost Man's River confronts the primal relationship between a dangerous father and his desperate sons and the ways in which his death has shaped their lives. Lucius Watson is obsessed with learning the truth about his father. Who was E. J. Watson? Was he a devoted family man, an inspired farmer, a man of progress and vision? Or was he a cold-blooded murderer and amoral opportunist? Were his neighbors driven to kill him out of fear? Or was it envy? And if Watson was a killer, should the neighbors fear the obsessed Lucius when he returns to live among them and ask questions? The characters in this tale are men and women molded by the harsh elements of the Florida Everglades--an isolated breed, descendants of renegades and pioneers, who have only their grit, instinct, and tradition to wield against the obliterating forces of twentieth-century progress: Speck Daniels, moonshiner and alligator poacher turned gunrunner; Sally Brown, who struggles to escape the racism and shame of her local family; R. B. Collins, known as Chicken, crippled by drink and rage, who is the custodian of Watson secrets; Watson Dyer, the unacknowledged namesake with designs on the remote Watson homestead hidden in the wild rivers; and Henry Short, a black man and unwilling member of the group of armed island men who awaited E. J. Watson in the silent twilight. Only a storyteller of Peter Matthiessen's dazzling artistry could capture the beauty and strangeness of life on this lawless frontier while probing deeply into its underlying tragedy: the brutal destruction of the land in the name of progress, and the racism that infects the heart of New World history. First U.S. Edition [Stated], First Printing [per Random House printing convention]. Nancy Crampton (Author photograph) (illustrator). Signed. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 608 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. dj. Second printing. Quarto, 270 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine is grey with black and white print. Dust jacket in mylar; slight edge wear. Price unclipped: "$22.50". Boards in tan cloth; spotting to cloth. Text block has spotting to edges. Illustrated: color plates. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QB (ND-QB. 1416540. FP New Rockville Stock. Signed. …

Third Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen, about the conflicts and relationships between an indigenous Amazon tribe, the missionaries that want to convert them, and the mercenaries hired to move them off their land. Set in Amazon rainforest, shot on location in Brazil and Venezuela. Green titled wrappers, noted as Third Draft on the front wrapper, dated April 23, 1990, with credits for screenwriters Jean-Claude Carriere, and Hector Babenco, and author Peter Matthiessen. Title page present, dated April 23, 1990, noted as Third Draft, with credits for screenwriters Carriere, and Babenco and author Matthiessen. 150 leaves, with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads.…