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The Ghostway
by Hillerman, Tony
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0575037245
- ISBN 13
- 9780575037243
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
A$298.97A$269.08
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. First British Edition. Bookplate signed by author laid in, within the mylar at the back panel. Small octavo, 184 pp. Red cloth, gilt spine imprint, pictorial jacket. Fine / Near Fine. Light toning to page periphery, else fine book in a jacket fine but for a small wrinkle. A nicely preserved example of the scarce UK first edition of Tony Hillerman's The Ghostway, a Jim Chee novel (see also: People of Darkness and The Dark Wind). L27
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.A photo sends Officer Chee on an odyssey of murder and revenge that moves from an Indian hogan to a deadly healing ceremony.Old Joseph Joe sees it all, Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is enough to send Tribal Policeman Jim Chee after a killer . . . and on an odyssey of murder and revenge that moves from an Indian hogan and its trapped ghost, to the dark underbelly of L.A., to a healing ceremony whose cure could be death.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000005
- Title
- The Ghostway
- Author
- Hillerman, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0575037245
- ISBN 13
- 9780575037243
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Pages
- 184
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern and Hypermodern Fiction;
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