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The Virgin in the Ice
de PETERS, Ellis (pseud. Edith Pargeter)
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1983. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm); one quarter dark blue cloth, with bright blue paper sides, stamped in gilt; color pictorial dustwrapper; 7-220pp, frontispiece (map). Dustwrapper sunned, with toning to white portions; mild shelf wear, scuffs and soiling; heel and crown of spine slightly bumped. Textblock edges foxed, else interiors clean and sound, Very Good.
The sixth installment in Peters' popular Cadfael Chronicles medieval mystery series. In the midst of civil war, a snowstorm, and a wave of bandit violence, two orphans are lost in the countryside surrounding Shrewsbury Abbey. An injured monk helps Brother Cadafel find one of them, but the boy's sister remains missing and Cadfael's discovery of a young girl's body beneath the ice is only the first crack in a complex case.
The sixth installment in Peters' popular Cadfael Chronicles medieval mystery series. In the midst of civil war, a snowstorm, and a wave of bandit violence, two orphans are lost in the countryside surrounding Shrewsbury Abbey. An injured monk helps Brother Cadafel find one of them, but the boy's sister remains missing and Cadfael's discovery of a young girl's body beneath the ice is only the first crack in a complex case.
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- Librería
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 47937
- Título
- The Virgin in the Ice
- Autor
- PETERS, Ellis (pseud. Edith Pargeter)
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First American Edition
- Editorial
- William Morrow & Company, Inc
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1983
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Fiction; Great Britain; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
