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Hillerman, Tony. The Blessing Way. Sidewinder Publications, Albuquerque, NM, 2006.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED. 224pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. Red endpapers. Fine/Fine. Includes thirty plus Ernest Franklin Illustrations and an introduction by Ernie Bulow. Signed by the author, illustrator and the publisher (Ernie Bulow) on the title page. Facsimile signature of Tony Hillerman stamped on the title page. The Sidewinder editions of Tony Hillerman's famed early and rare southwestern novels are designed to provide affordable and attractively illustrated hardbound in dust jacketed copies.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Hillerman, Tony. The Blessing Way. Sidewinder Publishing, 2006.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of the Sidewinder edition, Fine, unread book in a Fine minus dust jacket that has very slight rubbing both panels. Note that spine of book is plain black cloth with no lettering. This was Hillermans first mystery and it featured Joe Leaphorn, a Navajo Nation policeman. Introduction by Ernie Bulow of Buffalo Medicine Books. Dust jacket art and illustrations by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin. This copy has been signed on the title page by Hillerman, Franklin, and Bulow. Laid-in is an explanation from Sidewinder regarding this new edition of Hillermans first mystery.
Seller: Squid Ink Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Hillerman, Tony.. The Blessing Way.. Albuquerque, Sidewinder Publications, n.d. (2006, 2006.
Price: US$262.50 + shipping
Description: Albuquerque, Sidewinder Publications, n.d. (2006), first edition thus, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author First Book, illustrated by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin, foreword by the publisher, Ernie Bulow, Signed by both Hillerman and Franklin who also has provided an original full-page color illustration that depicts a Navajo shaman/healer/singer creating a sand painting during a healing or curing ceremony for a fellow Indian native American, with slipcase. Fine.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.