Publicado por Elisabeth Sifton Books, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0670819069 ISBN 13: 9780670819065
Librería: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Hardcover. Bob Hines Ilustrador. Revised, updated edition. pp. 332. 8vo. Colour plates and black-and-white illustrations. Very good in very good dustjacket.
Publicado por New York : Viking, 1987., 1987
ISBN 10: 0670819069 ISBN 13: 9780670819065
Librería: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0670819069. Hardcover copy in fine condition with fine condition dustwrapper. First printing of this revised edition. Tight clean copy. C 18-2 12. No Signature.
Publicado por Viking Press, Inc., New York, 1959
Librería: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Drawings by Bob Hines (cover painting is Albert Bierstadt's "The Buffalo Trail" Ilustrador. 1st Edition. "Published in 1959 by the Viking Press, Inc." -- the first printing. Large octavo. Inscribed in blue ink "For Mr. & Mrs. Robin(?) Hanes" and signed "Peter" (first name only) by author Matthiessen to the Free Front Endpaper. Laid in is a 1961 typed letter on Viking Press letterhead, signed in red ink by Edwin Kennebeck of the Editorial Department, addressed to Previous Owner Charles H. Seaholm Jr. of Stratford, Conn., acknowledging "You are quite right in saying that the opening Biblical quotation" (found after the initial eight bound-in color plates) "is from Jeremiah 2:7, and we will make the correction in our next printing." As this Hanes/Seaholm copy is a first printing, it attributes the quotation to "Jeremiah 1:6" -- publisher's letter thus revealing a presumed early printing "point." Price-clipped "very good" jacket exhibits a 5/8ths-inch (1.3 cm.) closed tear to bottom edge of front panel. Not just a catalog of species, but a detailed account of humankind's interaction with the fauna of North America, detailing before the issue received wide currency the role of man in causing the extinction of many species. North American animals, zoology, ecosystems, conservation (or lack thereof.) 304 pp. including index. reduced from $270. Signed by Author(s).