Bone by Matthiessen Peter (149 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. All orders are dispatched within one working day from our UK warehouse. We've been selling books online since 2004! We have over 750,000 books in stock. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: nrFine DW. 1st UK Edition. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First printing of this edition. First printing of this 8vo paperback edition. The conclusion of the Watson trilogy. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers - appears unread.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The capstone of the Watson trilogy.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. 410 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 410 p. 24 cm. Quarter black cloth with brown paper. Mylar-covered dustjacket. Signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, which appears unread. NOT price-clipped. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. A novel, part of the Shadow Country trilogy. "Shadow Country" is a reworked, re-edited, and retitled single-volume version of a trilogy published in the 1990s. The three parts of this book correspond to the three original novels: Killing Mr. Watson (1990), Lost Man's River (1997), and Bone By Bone (1999). Rear copies.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. (1999). First Edition, xiv, 410pp. Name written neatly on the first free endpaper, else VG+ in VG+ dj. Volume three of the sweeping Watson trilogy set in southwest Florida.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean un-read virtually new copy. The priced jacket has some lightish soil else fine. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 410 pages, bright, clean copy in unclipped dust jacket. Record # 405635.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The concluding volume in Matthiessen's acclaimed Watson Trilogy; the first two titles are Killing Mister Watson and Lost Man's River. Fine in fine dw, briefly INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover, in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Fine in near fine, gently rubbed dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Very fine in VF dustjacket. Pristine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Original publishers maroon cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. ISBN: 1860466672 Pages: 409 Fine in fine dust jacket. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Author on title page. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. Signed by Author.

[0-375-50102-9] 1999, 1st edition, first printing. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. xiv, 410pp. 8vo. Signed. First US edition, first printing. Mapped endpapers. Jacket protected in loose, mylar sleeve. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. The third book in the Watson trilogy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. This copy has been SIGNED by Peter Matthiessen on the Publisher's tipped-in page! Although it stands alone, "Bone By Bone" is also the capstone of the Watson Trilogy, which has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review as "one of the grand projects of contemporary literature." The voice here is that of the enigmatic Mister Watson himself. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Used. In Bone by Bone, Peter Matthiessen speaks in the extraordinary voice of the enigmatic and dangerous E J Watson, whom we first saw, obliquely, through the eyes of his early twentieth-century Everglades community in Killing Mister WatsonThis astonishing new novel, calling to account the violence, virulent racism, and destruction of the land that fueled the so-called American Dream, points an accusing finger straight into the burning eyes of Uncle Sam Here is the bloodied child of the Civil War and Reconstruction who dreams of recovering the family plantation He becomes the gifted cane planter nearing success on a wilderness river when he gives in fatally to his accumulating demons Powerfully imagined, prodigiously detailed, Bone by Bone is a literary tour de force as bold and ambitious as Watson himself.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; Second Printing. A nice second printing of the first edition in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author Peter Matthiessen directly on the title page; Edgar Watson was a boy in post Civil War South Carolina, the son of a brutal drunken father and a helpless mother. The story examines both the familial and the societal roots of Watson's violence, including the system of slavery that cheapened life for everyone it touched. Based on the real life character C. J. Watson, gunned down by a posse of neighbors before WWI. The last installment of The Watson Trilogy, after Killing Mr. Watson and Lost Man's River; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; Second Printing. A Fine second printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Peter Matthiessen directly on the title page; Edgar Watson was a boy in post Civil War South Carolina, the son of a brutal drunken father and a helpless mother. The story examines both the familial and the societal roots of Watson's violence, including the system of slavery that cheapened life for everyone it touched. Based on the real life character C. J. Watson, gunned down by a posse of neighbors before WWI. The last installment of The Watson Trilogy, after Killing Mr. Watson and Lost Man's River; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition/First printing. Signed by the author on the second free endpaper. Light bumping to the lower edge of the jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The capstone to the trilogy of Matthiessen's recreation of the life of the legendary E.J. Watson, who was gunned down by a posse of fearful neighbors just before World War One (Killing Mister Watson). In Lost Man's River, Matthiessen returned to the frontier of the Florida Everglades where the surviving son seeks to uncover the truth of his father's crimes. In this concluding volume he lays bare the "humanity at the heart of a dangerous and controversial figures" (publisher's blurb). Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Map endpapers front and rear. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "2" in "number" line present, as denoted Random House first printings until the following year. 410 pp. and with map endpapers front and rearMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The capstone to the trilogy of Matthiessen's recreation of the life of the legendary E.J. Watson, who was gunned down by a posse of fearful neighbors just before World War One (Killing Mister Watson). In Lost Man's River, Matthiessen returned to the frontier of the Florida Everglades where the surviving son seeks to uncover the truth of his father's crimes. In this concluding volume he lays bare the "humanity at the heart of a dangerous and controversial figures" (publisher's blurb). Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. 410 pp. and with map endpapers front and rearMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

First edition, first printing SIGNED. Fully signed by Peter Matthiessen on the second flyleaf. New bright illustrated dustjacket with crisp bright text. Very handsome and gift quality.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition / First printing. Special signed edition: One of an unknown number of copies signed by the author on a special bound-in page. Signed by the author. Black paper spine, gold paper-covered boards. 410 pages. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The third book in the Watson Trilogy. Matthiessen won the National Book Award for Shadow Country, which reworked the trilogy into a single volume. Signed by Author(s).