With a Drawing

The First Eagle [with Original Illustration]

Hillerman, Tony; illustration by Ernest Franklin

Publication: New York: Harper Collins, 1998. First Edition.

Notes: A murder mystery featuring Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn here in a special edition with an ink-and-pastel drawing by Franklin on the half-title. The illustration in this copy is of a skull rising over the New Mexico landscape with an eagle in the sky above them.

Ernest Franklin was a Navajo artist who liked embellishing Hillerman's books with drawings reflecting Native culture.

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, signed by Hillerman on the title page and by Franklin in his drawing. In a fine slipcase.

Item No: #365183

Price: $250