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The Raphael Affair [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Iain Pears
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0575047275
- ISBN 13
- 9780575047273
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. Very Good/Very Good. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Pears loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 191 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt.
Unclipped dust jacket is lightly worn along edges. Thin band of tape to jacket verso at center of spine. Boards show light shelfwear and faint tape remnants to top and bottom of front and rear boards. Opens easily between a couple gatherings towards rear but overall binding holding soundly. Pages unmarked.
First book in the Jonathan Argyll art history mystery series.
Unclipped dust jacket is lightly worn along edges. Thin band of tape to jacket verso at center of spine. Boards show light shelfwear and faint tape remnants to top and bottom of front and rear boards. Opens easily between a couple gatherings towards rear but overall binding holding soundly. Pages unmarked.
First book in the Jonathan Argyll art history mystery series.
Synopsis
Iain Pears was born in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian, and a television consultant in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of seven highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects, as well as the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost He lives in Oxford, England.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8642
- Title
- The Raphael Affair [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
- Author
- Iain Pears
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0575047275
- ISBN 13
- 9780575047273
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Jacket
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Bookplate
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- Spine
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- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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