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Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
by Christopher Moore
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0380978415
- ISBN 13
- 9780380978410
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Company, 2003. SIGNED. VG/VG. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Christopher Moore on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges. Light soiling to boards and top front corner bumped. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($23.95) with very light soiling (see photos). 0603 on the front flap. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 321 pages. 6 x 9¼" tall.
Marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn is in love -- with the sun-drenched waters off Maui … and especially with behemoths that have been hooting their haunting music for more than twenty million years. But just why do the humpback whales sing? That's the question that Nate and his crew continuously investigate. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: "Bite me."
Marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn is in love -- with the sun-drenched waters off Maui … and especially with behemoths that have been hooting their haunting music for more than twenty million years. But just why do the humpback whales sing? That's the question that Nate and his crew continuously investigate. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: "Bite me."
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4151
- Title
- Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
- Author
- Christopher Moore
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0380978415
- ISBN 13
- 9780380978410
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 321
- Size
- 6 x 9.25
- Keywords
- humor, whales, humpback whales
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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