By Firelight
by PARGETER, Edith [a.k.a. Ellis Peters]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1948]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [6],324pp. Jacket rather chipped and worn with bottom half of upper spine fold split, additional some closed tears and tiny chips to extremities, spine a bit dampstained, cloth corners bumped else Very Good in About Very Good only jacket. Historical novel by the author best known for her mystery series the Cadfael Chronicles, published under the pseudonym Ellis Peters.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37690
- Title
- By Firelight
- Author
- PARGETER, Edith [a.k.a. Ellis Peters]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1948]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Women; Great Britain; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...