MATTHIESSEN, Peter. The Snow Leopard.

(London): Chatto and Windus, 1979. First UK edition. Octavo. 312 pages. The first UK edition of the author’s, National Book Award winning, account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas. A very good copy, small neat previous owner’s name, in a near fine, but price-clipped, dust jacket.