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Curious Eat Themselves : An Alaskan Mystery
by Straley, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 093914994X
- ISBN 13
- 9780939149940
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: General Publishing Company, Limited, 1993. CB5 - An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in dark blue paper covered boards quarter bound in navy cloth with gold lettering and graphics on the spine with minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket is in very good+ condition with minor overall shelf wear mainly in the form of very light edge wear on the spine top and bottom edges. A mystery set in Alaska. 264p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.75"x8.5".
Synopsis
The youngest of five children, John Straley was born in 1953. He received a BA in English and a certificate of completion in Horse Shoeing. He has brown eyes and likes jokes and a wide variety of literature and music. He is the Shamus Award-winning author of The Curious Eat Themselves and The Woman Who Married a Bear and was appointed the Writer Laureate of Alaska in 2006. John Straley lives with his wife, Jan, a prominent whale biologist, in a bright green house on the beach in Sitka, Alaska, where he works as a criminal defense investigator by day and sleeps, writes, and plays with his band, The Big Fat Babies, whenever he can.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SCW03274
- Title
- Curious Eat Themselves : An Alaskan Mystery
- Author
- Straley, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 093914994X
- ISBN 13
- 9780939149940
- Publisher
- General Publishing Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Fiction Mystery Crime Detective Murder Thriller Alaska
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Mystery / Private Eyes: Male;
- Size
- 5.75"x8.5"
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- Jacket
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