Item #00005718 Under the Mountain Wall; A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age. Peter Matthiessen.

Under the Mountain Wall; A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age

New York: The Viking Press (1962), 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xvi, [2], 3-256, xvii-xxxii pp. Black cloth with gold and green lettering on the spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.50 on front flap of jacket. Decorated title page, with several plates of black and white photographs of the Kurelu people. With a few in-text illustrations as well. First issue as per Lopez (Firsts, September 1993). Matthiessen's observations of the Kurelu people, a remote tribe in New Guinea. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #00005718

Near Fine book with some mild darkening to the text block in a Very Good lightly edge-worn dust jacket.

Price: $40.00

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