NY, Viking, (1978). Matthiessen's National Book Award-winning volume, recounting a trip to the Himalayas with naturalist George Schaller in the hopes both of encountering a snow leopard in the wild and of coming to terms with his wife's recent death from cancer. Inscribed by the author in Santa Barbara in 1994: "For Rahda and Jimmy -- what fun it would be to go to India together! Namaste/ with love/ Peter." Also signed in full above the inscription. Los Angeles Times review of the book by Ralph Sipper laid in. Edge-sunned; near fine in a very good, spine-sunned dust jacket with wear at the crown. [#035588] SOLD