'Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsures.' So wrote Ellis Peters in her introduction to A RARE BENEDICTINE - three vintage tales of intrigue and treachery, featuring the monastic sleuth who has become a cult figure of crime fiction. The story of Cadfael's entry into the monastery at Shrewsbury has been known hitherto only to a few readers; now his myriad fans can discover the chain of events that let him ...
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'Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsures.' So wrote Ellis Peters in her introduction to A RARE BENEDICTINE - three vintage tales of intrigue and treachery, featuring the monastic sleuth who has become a cult figure of crime fiction. The story of Cadfael's entry into the monastery at Shrewsbury has been known hitherto only to a few readers; now his myriad fans can discover the chain of events that let him into the Benedictine Order. Lavishly adorned with Clifford Harper's beautiful illustrations, these three tales show Cadfael at the height of his sleuthing form, with all the complexities of plot, vividly evoked Shropshire backgrounds and warm understanding of the frailties of human nature that have made Ellis Peters and international bestseller.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 10x7x1; Minor wear & scuffs on boards. Light wear & foxing on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Price clipped dj Shelf worn around edges with scuffs & large chip missing on top edge of back cover.
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Clifford Harper. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps. Color illustrations by Clifford Harper. Light shelf wear; previous owner's name and date inside.
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Clifford Harper. VG+ in VG jacket. VG+/VG. 4to. original blue boards gilt (slightly rubbed and slanted, occ. marks) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed); pp. 128 (last blank), with illustrations. A very good copy of the 16th Cadfael chronicle, short stories set c. 1120, a prequel to the main series.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition of this collection. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper. Titles included are A Light on the Road To Woodstock, The Price of Light, Eye Witness.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 10.2 x 7.2 x 1 inches; Dust jacket condition: Near Fine. Inscribed and SIGNED by author on plate affixed to front free endpaper. First ed. Jacket price-clipped. London published Crime Fiction 128 pages.
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Harper, Clifford. Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author 1st edition. Fine, 2 small indentations at rear, one corner bumbed, in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED BY PETERS at the title page. Introduction by Peters. The story of Cadfael's entry into the monastary at shrewsbury has been known hiterto only to a few readers; now his myriad of fans can discover the chain of events that led him into the Benedictine Order. Three shorter stories-A Light on the Road To Woodstock, The Price of Light, and Eye Witness. Lavishly adorned with Clifford Harper's beautiful colour illustrations (thirteen), these three tales show Cadfael at the height of his sleuthing form.
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