The Affacombe Affair by Lemarchand, Elizabeth
- Bookseller: Persephone's Books
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 006106
- Format: Hard Cover
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: First American Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0802756220
- ISBN 13: 9780802756220
- Publisher: Walker and Company
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1985
Description
New York: Walker and Company, 1985. Fine/Very Good. ISBN: 0-8027-5622-0. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition. 214 pp. The jacket is lightly sunned at the spine. "A case for Inspector Pollard and Sergeant Toye." Keywords: Fiction; Mystery.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book 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. Also known as the back. sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun. 8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
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