Author: Peter Matthiessen

Fair Angelica / Black Cargoes - Original screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship during the middle passage, circa 1835

Price: $4,500.00

Publisher: : 1972

Seller ID: s180622m

Original unpublished and unproduced screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship [the Fair Angelica] navigating the middle passage, circa 1835. A very unusual subject for Matthiessen. “Fair Angelica” is a first draft, typed carbon, 123 loose leaves -- an agency copy used to solicit producers and investors -- one of whom was the progressive filmmaker Martin Ritt. “Black Cargoes” is a revised and retitled draft, 112 pp. in black studio 2-post covers. Mostly mimeographed, but with a dozen typed and corrected pages interleaved; numerous holographic additions or changes throughout by Matthi...
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Oomingmack: The Expedition to the Musk Ox Island in the Bering Sea

By: Matthiessen, Peter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY, Hastings House : 1967

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: s10022

Matthiessen was a member of the Nunivak Expedition formed to capture a group of musk ox calves to raise for their wool. Black and white photographs by the author. Book is flawless. Dustwrapper has a faded spine and faint sun line 1/4" wide along spine.
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Partisans

By: Matthiessen, Peter

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 00300

First edition in d/w. Viking Press, 1955. Book: Good - Sound, tight copy but with some age-toning along spine and owner's signature inside front cover. The dust wrapper was trimmed so that it is 1/4" shorter than the book.
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A Clark City Press Reader/Spring 1993. "Red and Blue Days / Writings on the American West" [signed copy]

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Livingston [Montana]: Clark City Press : 1993

Edition: 1st

Inscription: Signed.

Seller ID: s180624f

Condition: Fine.

5"x9" stapled wrappers, 34 pp.. Publishers announcement containing selections from forthcoming works, including an excerpt from Matthiessen's anticipated book Red and Blue Days/Writings on the American West. The book was never published, leaving this excerpt as the only published survivor. Fine.
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Race Rock.

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY: Harper & Brothers : 1954

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: s180622a

The author's first novel, published just after he returned from Paris, where he helped found the Paris Review. Very Good-near fine in VG d/w. The book itself is clean, bright and tight; the only interior flaw is a prior owner’s inked signature at top of FFEP. No rubbing or chipping to covers, as often bound, but a thin fade line at top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket is not price-clipped but spine is lightly rubbed at top and bottom with some age-toning.
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Seal Pool

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY: Doubleday : 1972

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: s180622u

Condition: Fine

1st ed., 8vo, illustrated cloth. Matthiessen's first and only children's book, with an ecological theme. Jacket and illustrations by William Pene du Bois. This copy is with the special reinforced library binding, as originally issued. A pristine copy in near fine d/w. The book itself is flawless; the jacket is lightly soiled at edges and is price-clipped.
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The Valley / Original Screenplay about migrant farmworkers in California

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: Sagaponack NY, n.p. : 1972

Edition: Original Typescript

Seller ID: s180622t2

Condition: Very Good

First draft, original typescript for an unpublished and unproduced screenplay about migrant farmworkers and UFW organizers in the San Joaquin Valley of California. 8.5x11" in two-post card binder.#####A fictional treatment exploring some of the labor issues Matthiessen explored in his sojourns with Cesar Chavez and his 1969 nonfiction book Sal Si Puedes. 86 typescript pages, with a duplicate final page containing two holographic corrections by Matthiessen and handwritten delivery instructions to his Hollywood agent. Together with a brief handwritten note two decades later about the possibili...
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The Snow Leopard - Unproduced screenplay for a proposed film

By: Peter Matthiessen and Waldemar Korzeniowsky

Price: $375.00

Publisher: The Jones Kenner Picture Company : 1982

Seller ID: s180622y

Condition: Near fine

125 pp. Original screenplay for a proposed film based on the National Book Award winning memoir - cowritten by Matthiessen and the Polish producer/director Korzeniowsky. Nearly fine in studio wrappers bound with 3 posts, as issued. The screenplay is an original studio photocopy; the title page typed on production company letterhead. We are aware of no other copies having come on the market. Near fine: light wear to covers, internally fine. Unusual in that PM is a cowriter of the script; most proposed screenplays of his works were adapted by others.
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Author: Peter Matthiessen