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Sacred Clowns (Advance Reading Copy)
by Hillerman, Tony
- Used
- as new
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- As New
- Seller
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Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York : HarperCollins, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New. Trade Size Paperback. Advance Reading Copy for the hardcover. First Printing. With pictorial cover. 264 pages. AS NEW. All corners pointed. Binding firm and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked and very clean and bright. All books carefully wrapped annd sent boxed.
Synopsis
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work and his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee; plus a special profile of the Navajo nation.Officer Chee attempts to solve two modern murders by deciphering the sacred clown's ancient message to the people of the Tano pueblo.AN ANCIENT TRUST IS BROKENDuring a Tano kachina ceremony something in the antics of the dancing koshare fills the air with tension. Moments later the clown is found brutally bludgeoned in the same manner that a reservation schoolteacher was killed just days before.In true Navajo style, Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police go back to the beginning to decipher the sacred clown's message to the people of the Tano pueblo. Amid guarded tribal secrets and crooked Indian traders, they find a trail of blood that links a runaway schoolboy, two dead bodies, and the mysterious presence of a sacred artifact.
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Details
- Seller
- Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 21122708
- Title
- Sacred Clowns (Advance Reading Copy)
- Author
- Hillerman, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries; Galleys;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts
Biblio member since 2015
Beaverton, Oregon
About Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts
We owned and operated The Looking Glass Bookstore in downtown Portland, Oregon for thirty years. Our citations on this site are the accumulation of first editions, small press, galleys, letter press, comics and comix, and other interesting books and ephemera that we set aside over those years. Almost everything we saved is new, added to boxes that were sealed and kept until now.
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