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First edition, first printing, hardcover. Map end papers. 225 pages. Near fine with light foxing to top edge of text block, in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Mylar cover on jacket. NOT ex-library. NOT a remainder. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box.

Publisher: Random House, New York, 1991.FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. Pristine. As new. Unread. First Edition, First Printing. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1991. The dj is bumped and has mylar covering. Pages are clean and tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo. Ex-Library.

MATTHIESSEN, Peter: African Silences. New York, Random House, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 225 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Africa – Description and Travel / Natural History – Africa. Book and jacket condition: Very Good Minus. A bit of foxing to the top-side of the book, but no other visible imperfections. Tiny tears to the center-top and bottom of dust wrapper. Price unclipped at the interior front flap. Overall a copy in near first-rate condition with unmarked pages. A moving chronicle of travels made in the Dark Continent by the internationally acclaimed author of The Snow Leopard and At Play in the Fields of the Lord. An important contribution to the travel genre. ISBN: 0679400214

Number line from 2 to 9 with the words First Edition printed below indicates a Random House first edition, first printing; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectable condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.

New York: Random House Inc, 1991. Book. N-Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A square solid tight over-all clean copy with some light reading wear. Two pages hace corner creases and thewre is a small light stain to the bottom pagedges. The jacket has some very light rubbing,very light soil and is wrinkled along the top edges although there are no stains present..

NY: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0679400214 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

New York: Random House, 1991. First edition / First printing. Green cloth spine, off-white paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Very clean beige boards with green cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear, but has tiny (almost imperceptible) dent at bottom of front board. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Maps on endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 225 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped and enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Africa.

Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Good solid binding of green half cloth with gilt titles, cream cloth over boards, rubbed on edges. Minimal lib marks. Tight and solid sewn binding. Endpapers with maps of forest elephant and wildlife survey areas in Africa. Front endpaper has corner square clipped. Some pages wavy, clean and completely free from any markings. Jacket with illustration of mom and baby elephant, in cream and black; clean and unmarked except lib tag on spine, slight edgewear, not price-clipped. Library mylar cover removed and replaced with new archival cover. Matthiessen is renowned for his travels to some of the most exotic and inaccessible places on earth. Here he traces his journeys to West Africa, to Zaire in search of the rare Congo peacock, to Central Africa with ecologist David Western to determine the status of the small forest elephant in the Congo basin. He gives a portrait of vanishing worlds and what is replacing them. 225 pages. 8.5 x 5.8 inches. New York, Random House, 1991.