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  First edition of David Rieff's Going to Miami; inscribed by him and from the library of Peter Matthiessen

  RIEFF, David. [Peter Matthiessen].

  Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America.

  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987.

  First edition of Rieff's classic work on the complex history of Miami, Florida. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, "For Maria, with much love. David New York IX.9.87." The recipient, Maria Eckhart was the third wife of American writer Peter Matthiessen. 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" (Michael Dirda). With Matthiessen's bookplate to the pastedown. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Timothy Weekly.

  Price: $125.00     Item Number: 135144

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