Orchid Thief
by Orlean, Susan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a Fine dust jacket
- Seller
-
Miami, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. 1998. First edition.. HB. Signed by the author on the title page. .
Synopsis
The Orchid Thief is a non-fiction book by American journalist and author Susan Orlean, based on her investigation of the 1994 arrest of John Laroche and a group of Seminoles in south Florida for poaching rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. The book is based on an earlier article that Orlean wrote for The New Yorker magazine. Laroche, a plant dealer, was determined to find and clone the rare Ghost Orchid for profit.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grove Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GA000508I
- Title
- Orchid Thief
- Author
- Orlean, Susan
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Signed by the author on the title page.
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About the Seller
Grove Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2007
Miami, Florida
About Grove Antiquarian
We buy and sell books, specializing in South Florida and the Caribbean.
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We are always interested in purchasing important individual items or specific collections. We are a mail order business.
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