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), [viii], 313pp. 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. Dust jacket toned, with general soiling and creases, bumping, and minor tears to margins and spine ends; verso toned. Board corners and spine ends bumped with minor flaking of paper at edges and shelfwear to bottom margin. Soiling and scuffing to page edges but internal pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in a Very Good or better dust jacket.

The second of Thornburg's novels follows a war vet and his friend as they investigate the murder one of them witnessed.