Item #2751 KILLING MISTER WATSON. Peter Matthiessen.
KILLING MISTER WATSON
KILLING MISTER WATSON
KILLING MISTER WATSON
KILLING MISTER WATSON

KILLING MISTER WATSON

New York: Random House, 1990. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black quarter cloth with copper lettering on spine over dark green boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Paul Bacon, map endpapers, [viii] + 372 numbered pages + [2] About the Author. Near Fine / Fine. Item #2751
ISBN: 0394554000

First in author's "Watson Trilogy," his brilliant series based on historical fact.

Peter Matthiessen (1927 – 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher, and environmental activist. A co-founder of The Paris Review, he won the National Book Award in both fiction and nonfiction.

Matthiessen's nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably The Snow Leopard (1978), Sand Rivers (1981); and American Indian issues and history, such as a detailed and controversial study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983).

His fiction was adapted for film: the early story "Travelin' Man" was made into The Young One (1960) and the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) into the 1991 film.

In 2008, at age 81, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction for Shadow Country, a one-volume revision of his three novels set in frontier Florida published in the 1990s.

NEAR FINE CONDITION internally & externally! Tight, bright, clean, without foxing or price-clipping, but with a bump along the lower mid-edge of the front cover, and a remainder mark along page bottoms.

Price: $35.00

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