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The Blessing Way
by Hillerman, Tony
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good minus
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good minus. SIGNED. 201 pp. Octavo [21 cm]; 1/2 magenta cloth with purple paper covered boards. The backstrip is sunned, and the spine title is a bit rubbed. A handful of the pages are trimmed short. In the dust jacket, with an abraded area to the surface of the backstrip which obscures the majority of the author's name. The jacket's edges are lightly rubbed and creased. The Blessing Way is the first of the series involving Joe Leaphorn. Signed by Hillerman 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
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64132
- Title
- The Blessing Way
- Author
- Hillerman, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Tony Hillerman; hardcover; Joe Leaphorn; signed; Navajo; first edition; LA/SEATTLE2023
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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