Bone By Bone.

MATTHIESSEN, Peter.

Item Number: 5044

New York: Random House, 1999.

First edition of the concluding volume in the Watson trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Matthiessen to his father: “For Dad (and Barbara) with much love from the author (to the man who got me into this strange business)/ April 1, 1999. Signed in full, “Peter Matthiessen,” on the facing page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

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 Watson.