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NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Shambhala, 1986. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Uncorrected proof in blue wraps of these journals in which Matthiessen intersperses his personal account of his recovery from his wife's death through the practice of Zen with a history of Buddhism in America.
Synopsis
Peter Matthiessen, distinguished novelist, naturalist, journalist, and explorer, was born in New York City and has been a commercial fisherman and charterboat captain. He participated as a diver in the worldwide search for the great white shark that culminated in his book Blue Meridian and in the film Blue Water, White Death. His fiction includes Race Rock; Partisans; Raditzer; At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for a National Book Award; and most recently Far Tortuga. His nonfiction includes The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for a National Book Award, The Snow Leopard, which won a National Book Award in 1979, and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.
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Details
- Seller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 008254
- Title
- NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER
- Author
- MATTHIESSEN, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Shambhala
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Buddhism, Religion, Uncorrected Proof
- Bookseller catalogs
- Uncorrected Proof; Buddhism;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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