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THE CURIOUS EAT THEMSELVES.
by Straley, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 093914994X
- ISBN 13
- 9780939149940
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: SOHO Press,, (1993). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. Author's second Alaskan mystery, featuring investigator Cecil Younger. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For --- looking forward to your visit to Alaska" and dated in 1997. 264 pp.
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
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74350
- Title
- THE CURIOUS EAT THEMSELVES.
- Author
- Straley, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 093914994X
- ISBN 13
- 9780939149940
- Publisher
- SOHO Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1993)
- Keywords
- alaska setting,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;
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