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Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. xiv, 311 pp. New. No dust jacket as issued. Pictorial paper on board. Volume 84, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1945. First Edition, Fourth Printing (1945). Hardcover. Quarto. 11 x 8 inches. 253 pp (including index). Near Fine / Good+. Green cloth on board. Title and decoration stamped on front board in dark green and red. Lettering stamped on spine in dark green and red. Illustrations throughout. Light bump to upper leading corner of front board, else Fine. Text block tight and square, pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has chipping at head and foot of spine, at corners, and at top of the rear panel; closed tears at top edges of both panels and at bottom edge of front panel; creasing at bottom and top of front panel and at top of rear panel. Now in protective archival cover. Scarce in dust jacket.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982. First U.S. Edition, First Printing (review copy). Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 7-223 pp. Fine / Fine. Stated "First U.S. Edition" showing full number line. Dust jacket intact, showing price of $11.50. Quarter-bound purple cloth over pale green paper over boards, stamped metallic silver lettering to spine. Text block clean, tight, unmarked, crisp. Dust jacket very slightly shelf-rubbed, else Fine. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover. Publisher's review copy note laid in. The fifth Brother Cadfael mystery.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1990 (1981). Revised Edition, Third Printing. Folio. 15 x 11-1/2 inches. Unpaginated. Hardcover with dustjacket housed in slipcase. Near Fine / Near Fine / Near Fine. White linen-covered boards with particulars and decorative panels stamped in black to backstrip. Dustjacket illustrated with art from Audubon plates. Sturdy white linen-covered slipcase with glossy paper overlay duplicating dustjacket. Royal blue endpapers. Illustrated with 435 color plates. Color frontispiece (John James Audubon, by John Syme, 1826). Contains A Note About This Edition, Introduction, eleven sections of plates, and Appendix (including Concordance and Index). 3/4-inch crease to upper leading corners of 12 pages, 2-inch dog-ear to lower leading corner cluster of 3 pages, and 1-inch dog-ear to lower leading corner cluster of 7 pages, all likely due to previous owner struggling to return the extremely heavy volume to its slipcase. Else Fine. No bumping. Tips sharp and firm. Slight rubbing and… Read More