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| | Wildlife in America
| | Author: Matthiessen, Peter
| | Price: $200.00USD | | Binding: Cloth
| | Publication Date: 1959
| | Condition: Fine/Very Good
| | GillmantonCode: 43 | | Edition: First Edition
| | Publisher: The Viking Press
|  | | Description: Illustrated End Papers 304 pp. 7-1/8" x 10". Green cloth quarter
bound in heavy beige linen cloth. Black printed pictures on front
cover. Gold gilt lettering in green box on spine and author's name
in green on spine. Dust jacket is very modestly worn at the edges.
Price is intact on dust jacket. Matthiessen's first book of
non-fiction. Illustrated by Bob Hines. Introduction by Richard A.
Pough. A dedicated conservationist, Matthiessen prepares the way for
other environmentally conscious writers. Line drawings throughout
the text, 8 color plates and 27 monochrome plates. Sixteen pages of
documentary photographs and drawings. This book is an ". . .
historical survey . . . of the white man's effect on wildlife in
America."
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