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The Raphael Affair
by Pears, Iain
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151789126
- ISBN 13
- 9780151789122
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Harcourt, 1990-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x8. The binding is Clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block with remainder mark on bottom edge. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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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- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CHAPpeaTRA
- Title
- The Raphael Affair
- Author
- Pears, Iain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151789126
- ISBN 13
- 9780151789122
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990-01-01
- Size
- 6x0x8
- X weight
- 18 oz
Terms of Sale
Chaparral Books
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
Chaparral Books
Biblio member since 2015
Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
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