The great Taos bank robbery, and other Indian country affairs.Tony Hillerman
1973 [1st ed.].English Book 147 pages illustrations 21 cm
Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1973
OCLC: "The great Taos bank robbery -- The Navajo who had so many friends he couldn't get no wire strung -- The very heart of our country -- The mountain on the guardrail at Exit 164B -- We all fall down -- The messenger birds -- The conversion of Cletus Xywanda -- The Apache who wouldn't be missed -- The hunt for the lost American -- How Quemado got Quemado -- Las Trampas -- Black Jack Ketchum and the sixteen faithful bartenders -- Othello in Union County -- The committee and the mule deer -- Quijote in Rio Arriba County -- Keeping secrets from the Russians -- Mr. Luna's Lazarus act."
Signed 1st edition bound in tan cloth with black lettering and pictorial end pages - signed on the half-title page. Complete in 147 bright crisp pages. Slight dust jacket edgewear with 2 photos on rear panel of jacket. Top edge of jacket flaps with toning.
From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature!
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