Dance Hall of the Dead Tapa dura - 1973

Harper & Row Limited, 1973. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

HarperCollins Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harper & Row, 1973. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A heavily used first edition of Hillerman's second novel with Navajo policeman Joe Leaphorn. Winner of the Edgar Award as best novel of the year. Hardcover in baby blue boards backed with dusty pink cloth. Dark blue titling to the spine. Patterned endpapers. Library markings include card pouch pasted to rfep and an ink stamp to top of text block. Cocked (reading slant) but firm binding. Tape stains and remnants on boards and endpapers. Dust jacket in archival book jacket cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Book. Illus. by Gail Burwen (cover). Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing w/complete number line. The second novel featuring Navajo tribal police officer Joe Leaphorn, and telling the story of his efforts to track down a brutal killer after two young boys disappear. Winner of the 1973 Edgar Award for best novel. Coral/turquoise cloth, 166 pages. Moderately cocked w/a bit of soil to covers, small scrape to bottom edge of back cover, spotting/foxing to top edge, light edge soil, light tanning, in price-clipped dust jacket w/some spine sunning, moderate edgewear, some chipping to corners/spine ends, a couple of short edge tears, about 4" vertical/partially diagonal tear to rear panel/bottom spine, rubbing, impressions, general wear..

Turquoise and orange boards with turquoise writing on spine; top and bottom of book spine rumpled. Front dust jacket near spine has small piece missing; piece missing from top of dust jacket spine to back dust jacket top. Chipping and small piece missing from top of front dust jacket near flap fold; author's name slightly faded and rubbed on dust jacket spine. Small piece missing from top of back dust jacket flap fold; tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition. Harper & Row First Edition; Second Printing as indicated by "73 74 75 76 77 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2" number line listed on colophon page. Hillerman's second Navajo mystery novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, this copy is in great condition and a rare find of a second printing. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.

Harper & Row, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x0. Signed by Author. Signed by Hillerman on half title page. No indication of edition listed on copyright page. It appears to be a fourth printing (1977) with number line on RFEP as follows: 77 10 9 8 7 6 5 4. Bound in purple and blue cloth with black and white Harper Novel of Suspense endpapers. The binding is tight, corners sharp. There is a 1/2cm split to cloth along bottom front corner. Pages are crisp and unmarked; edges bright. Price-clipped dust jacket shows light handling, edge wear, and rubbing, with general fading visible to the white portions. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. PRIORITY SHIPPING PROVIDED IN THE USA FOR THE PRICE OF MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING.

Harper & Row, 1973-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Harper & Row, 1973-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.9000 8.2000 5.7000. Dust jacket shows minor wear and rubbing, tanning and creasing. Minor foxing on the edges, pages are clean. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page.

New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0060118989 . Fourth Printing. Signed by Hillerman to poet Tony Moffeit, "For Tony Moffeit/Who must get tired of hearing the same anecdotes/But is too much the Oklahoma gentleman to show it/Tony Hillerman." Orange cloth spine over blue boards. A small bump to the top edge of the front board. The dust jacket has closed tears to the heel of the spine, and rear panel. Publisher's price of $10.95 to the front flap. Lt. Joe Leaphorn investigates the disappearance of two Native American boys---one of them a young Zuni. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.; 166 pages; Signed by Author .