New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1983. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm); one quarter dark blue cloth, with bright blue paper sides, stamped in gilt; color pictorial dustwrapper; 7-220pp, frontispiece (map). Dustwrapper sunned, with toning to white portions; mild shelf wear, scuffs and soiling; heel and crown of spine slightly bumped. Textblock edges foxed, else interiors clean and sound, Very Good.

The sixth installment in Peters' popular Cadfael Chronicles medieval mystery series. In the midst of civil war, a snowstorm, and a wave of bandit violence, two orphans are lost in the countryside surrounding Shrewsbury Abbey. An injured monk helps Brother Cadafel find one of them, but the boy's sister remains missing and Cadfael's discovery of a young girl's body beneath the ice is only the first crack in a complex case.

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Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 47937
Title: The Virgin in the Ice
Author: PETERS, Ellis (pseud. Edith Pargeter)
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Inc
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1983
Bookseller catalogs: Modern Fiction; Great Britain; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;

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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...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Dustwrapper: Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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....
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...