JONES, James. [Peter Matthiessen].
The Thin Red Line.
"For Anne- who (with her old man) shared one of the pleasantest nites of my life": First Edition of James Jones' The Thin Red Line; From the Library of Fellow Novelist Peter Matthiessen
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962.
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First edition of Jones’ sequel to his first novel, From Here to Eternity. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers. From the library of fellow novelist, Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the front free endpaper. 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 leading figure in fiction and non-fiction for six decades, he co-founded the famed Paris Review in 1953. A prominent environmental, 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” (Michael Dirda). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Leonard Slonevsky.
The Thin Red Line.
$850.00
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