The full and detailed views of the dustcover for the second Italian paperback edition of A Thief of Time. This edition was published in 1991 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in Milan, Italy. Il Giallo Mondadori (the yellow Mondadori) was a series of weekly publications put out by the Mondadori publishing house. Tony Hillerman's original text was translated from English to Italian by A.M. Francavilla.
Cover Design and Photography Credits: The cover was designed by Prieto Muriana and depicts a startled woman in caving gear holding a gun pointing a flashlight at a rock wall that illuminates a Kokopelli pictograph and a shadow of a man.