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The Woman Who Married a Bear.
by Straley, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: blue binding with cloth at the spine; the spine is slanted; the edges of the text block show age-freckling; s
- ISBN 10
- 0939149648
- ISBN 13
- 9780939149643
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Soho Press, 1992.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue binding with cloth at the spine; the spine is slanted; the edges of the text block show age-freckling; sound condition, no markings; a Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is very good but for fading at the spine; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by William L Neeper; jacket design by RMB. This was the author's first novel, and the first in the Cecil Younger mystery series. This copy is Signed by the author, with a personalized note.
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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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 067657
- Title
- The Woman Who Married a Bear.
- Author
- Straley, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: blue binding with cloth at the spine; the spine is slanted; the edges of the text block show age-freckling; s
- Edition
- 1st Printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0939149648
- ISBN 13
- 9780939149643
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1992.
- Pages
- 225 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (8.5 inches tall)
Terms of Sale
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