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BORN A CHIEF: The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa, As Told to Alfred F. Whiting.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1993.). This account of the first 20 years of Nequatewa's life as a boy in the remote Second Mesa village of Shipaulovi in northern Arizona is invaluable both for his descriptions of the Hopi culture, but also as an account of the personal and social changes he and his people were facing, as they came into more and more contact with the Anglo world. Frontispiece, photographs. Bibliography, index. 193 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-13546.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, tape reinforcement to the spine, but overall tight and clean.
Book ID: 31531More details Price: $10.00 -
THE LETHAL PARTNER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery novel featuring blind sculptor Mo Bowdre, set in contemporary Santa Fe, New Mexico, where seven previously unknown Georgia O'Keefe paintings have reportedly been discovered. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-345-387848.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 4629More details Price: $18.00 -
THE DEADLY CANYON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery novel featuring blind sculptor Mo Bowdre, set in a remote desert corner of New Mexico. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: 'For Bob, hope the forensics pass muster.'. ISBN: 0-345-379306.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 17785More details Price: $30.00 -
THE KNOTTED STRINGS.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2003). The third mystery novel featuring blind sculptor Mo Bowdrez; a film company is making a movie on location on tribal lands in New Mexico. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-28628.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58470More details Price: $16.50 -
THE STOLEN GODS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel introducing blind sculptor Mo Bowdrez and his Anglo-Hopi girlfriend Connie Barnes. Set in New Mexico. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-345379284.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 66260More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LETHAL PARTNER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery novel featuring blind sculptor Mo Bowdre, set in contemporary Santa Fe, New Mexico, where seven previously unknown Georgia O'Keefe paintings have reportedly been discovered. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-345-387848.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87408More details Price: $30.00 -
THUNDER CAVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Young adult novel - A young boy and a Masai join forces in Kenya as Jake tries to find his father who is researching the elephants there, and the Masai is trying to end the drought - and together they succeed in stopping the poachers who are killing elephants for their tusks. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the title page. 250 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64484More details Price: $25.00 -
SISTERS OF THE DREAM.
Edition: First printing.
Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Publishing, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a novel of the intertwining of four women's lives: Liz, a contemporary uprooted American who dreams of Talasi a young 12th century Hopi woman; Hatt, the widow of a trading post owner; Deena, a divorced mother struggling for custody, and Rose, a 20th century Hopi woman. Dustjacket praise from John Nichols who says that 'Sojourner writes with beauty and gusto...her women are wonderful. bedeviled, passionate human beings.'. ISBN: 0-87358-4861.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (some toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 31309More details Price: $19.00