The Blessing Way
by Hillerman, Tony
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Slight wear, still fine in very good dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine, shallow chipping to spine tips, minor rubbing and
- Seller
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Denver, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Row, 1970. First edition, first printing. Slight wear, still fine in very good dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine, shallow chipping to spine tips, minor rubbing and a one-half by three-quarter inch chip to rear panel, in mylar cover. Housed in custom modern slipcase. Signed by the author on the title page and with two very handsome original drawings by Navaho artist Ernest Franklin, one covering the entire half-title and a portrait of Joe Leaphorn on the title-page.
Synopsis
Joe Leaphorn must stalk a supernatural killer known as the "Wolf-Witch" along a chilling trail of mysticism and murder. When Lt. Joe Leaphorn of The Navaho Tribal Police discovers a corpse with a mouth full of sand at a crime scene seemingly without tracks or clues, he is ready to suspect a supernatural killer. Blood on the rocks . . . A body on the high mesa . . . Leaphorn must stalk the Wolf-Witch along a chilling trail between mysticism and murder. -
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Hermitage Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 171959
- Title
- The Blessing Way
- Author
- Hillerman, Tony
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight wear, still fine in very good dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine, shallow chipping to spine tips, minor rubbing and
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Signed, Original drawings, First Book
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About the Seller
The Hermitage Bookshop
Biblio member since 2006
Denver, Colorado
About The Hermitage Bookshop
The Hermitage Bookshop was established in 1973 and has been under one owner since its inception. We are a full service rare and used bookshop and our stock is limited to hardbacks in excellent condition. We have been a member of both the ABAA and ILAB since 1980.
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- Rubbing
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- Fine
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- Sunned
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- Jacket
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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