KILLING MISTER WATSON
New York: Random House, 1990. First American Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), black quarter cloth with copper lettering on spine over dark green boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) by Paul Bacon, map endpapers, [viii] + 372 pages + [2] About the Author. Weight: 1 lb. 10 oz. Fine / Fine. Item #8152
First in author's "Watson Trilogy," his brilliant series based on historical fact. Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century with grand schemes to make a fortune. Watson was rumored to have killed outlaw Bell Starr.
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). Several of his works were adapted as films.
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.
FINE CONDITION internally & externally! Tight, bright, clean, without foxing or price-clipping. No previous owner or remainder marks.
Price: $65.00