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The Dark Wind
by Tony Hillerman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060149361
- ISBN 13
- 9780060149369
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Row, New York, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Near Fine. Signed by Author. TONY HILLERMAN. The Dark Wind, New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Octavo, first edition, pp. 214, blue paper-covered boards quarter-bound in blue cloth with silver lettering to spine, inscribed on the free front endpaper by Hillerman to "Eleanor -- from one ex-police reporter to another." Bookseller ticket on front pastedown, Condition of this book: Fine in a near-fine jacket with tiny nicks along the bottom of the rear panel, short, innocuous crease in rear flap. The cloth along the top edge is faintly sunned. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; United States; 1980s; Fiction. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0060149361. ISBN/EAN: 9780060149369. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54054. . 9780060149369
Synopsis
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.Officer Jim Chee becomes trapped in a deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54054
- Title
- The Dark Wind
- Author
- Tony Hillerman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060149361
- ISBN 13
- 9780060149369
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Crime Fiction; United States; 1980s; Fiction. Signed by Author ISBN: 0060149361 EAN: 9780060149369 Tony Hillerman The Dark Wind
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- Cloth
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- Sunned
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- Fine
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