The Dark Wind (Review Copy)
by HILLERMAN, Tony
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harper & Row, 1982. Bound in blue boards with blue cloth spine (corners lightly bumped) in Near Fine dustwrapper that shows creasing to flaps. Review Copy with slip laid in. An early Jim Chee mystery that is a bit difficult to find in Fine condition. This copy shows quite well ... Signed by Mr. Hillerman on a laid in bookplate.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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
- abookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001666
- Title
- The Dark Wind (Review Copy)
- Author
- HILLERMAN, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Jim Chee; Mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Mystery; Addbooks04;
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