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  • From the Library of John Steinbeck

    [STEINBECK, John].

    Two Russian Books From the Library of John Steinbeck.

    Moscow: Various, c. 1960.

    Two volumes in Russian from the library of American literary master John Steinbeck. Quarto, two volumes including a book of early Russian Orthodox paintings with many in color and a folio of loose plates featuring artwork from the Hermitage Museum. From the library of John Steinbeck. In very good condition.

    Price: $950.00     Item Number: 117588

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  • First edition of Rosemary Jones Tung's A Portrait of Lost Tibet; from the library of Peter Matthiessen

    TUNG, Rosemary Jones. [Peter Matthiessen].

    A Portrait of Lost Tibet.

    New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.

    First edition of the author's photographic evocation of Tibet. Quarto, original boards, ornamental art by Zlatko Paunov. From the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the pastedown. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. “No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea”…

    Price: $150.00     Item Number: 140207

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