Cutter and Bone

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. Very Good +/Very Good +. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (21.5 cm); publisher's white illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($8.95); boards quarter bound in two thicknesses of black paper with silver stamping on spine and blind stamping on front; endsheets bright red; [viii],313pp. Jacket edgeworn with a closed tear at top rear and and small chip at tail, along with some general light toning and smudging. Boards lightly shelfworn; spine cocked with nudging at head. Light abrasion to front free endpaper likely effacing a prior ownership signature. Binding sound and pages unmarked.

The second of Thornburg's novels follows a war vet and his friend as they investigate the murder one of them witnessed. Basis for the 1981 film Cutter's Way starring Jeff Bridges and John Heard.