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NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Slight foxing to top bulked edge of text; tiny tear to outer margin of half-title page. Still about Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Shambhala, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to top bulked edge of text; tiny tear to outer margin of half-title page. Still about Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. In these journals 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
- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002012
- Title
- NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER
- Author
- MATTHIESSEN, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight foxing to top bulked edge of text; tiny tear to outer margin of half-title page. Still about Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Shambhala
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Zen Buddhism, Peter Matthiessen, Religion, Spirituality
- Bookseller catalogs
- Zen Buddhism; Environmental LIterature;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
All books subject to prior sale. Payment with order; institutions may be billed. Postage additional: $11.00 for the first book, $6.00 each thereafter. Overseas postage billed at approximate cost. Pennsylvania residents must add 6% sales tax. Mastercard, Visa, and American Express accepted. We are also open to reasonable payment terms. A book may be returned within 7 days of receipt for any reason provided it is in the same condition as sent and prior notice is given. Please insure returns for their full value.
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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- Dustwrapper
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