The Tie That Binds
- Hardcover
- New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 246pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with light gray paper covered boards. Very good, with rubbing at the spine ends. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket, with age-toning. A first edition of Haruf's first novel. This novel received a Whiting Foundation Award and a Hemingway Foundation/PEN citation.