The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)

Signed 1978 Limited First Edition, The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania
Leather bound with raised stitching, gilt letters and design on the front, special endpapers and two-color ink. Printed especially for the first edition society. 348 pp. Signed on a special free-endpaper. Matthiessen won The National Book Award three times in both non-fiction and fiction titles. The Snow Leopard won in 1979 and 1980, in different categories, and Shadow Country won in 2014. "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea." ~Michael Dirda This book has been included in several lists of best travel books.