Hunting Badger

New York: Harper Collins, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/very good. SIGNED. 275pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over sepia boards. Housed in a tan Buffalo Medicine slipcase with a gilt stamped cow skull on the front panel (with a thin, 2" red mark on the rear panel). The text block is starting to crack at the title page. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed. The fourteenth in the Leaphorn and Chee series. Signed by Hillerman on the title page. Contains an original Ernest Franklin illustration in full color on the half-title, signed at the foot. Illustration is of "Ute Mountain Casino." The Hillerman/Franklin limited editions produced by Buffalo Medicine Press were done in small numbers and every book has a different original piece of artwork drawn or water-colored into the book itself.