Last Pool by Patrick Obrian (18 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1950 First Edition, First Printing - 1st state binding. Size 12mo, 7.25" tall, 216 pages. Publisher's original green cloth covered boards with dark blue titling to the spine. No Dust jacket. Condition about good, the spine is faded, there is mildew like fading to the lower outer corners of the covers, more so to the front cover than the back. There is a small gift inscription to the front end-paper. The pages are toned otherwise clean throughout. Thirteen short stories about countryside: several with a theme of fishing and fox-hunting in Ireland and Snowdonia, The Drawing Of The Curranwood Badgers, and the others on wild-fowling, shooting and poaching. Patrick O'Brian was born Richard Patrick Russ, changing his name by deed-poll in 1945. He wrote several books under his birth-name and a great number as Patrick O'Brian. Binding A - first state, with green cloth covers and blue titling to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a clean unmarked copy in the dust wrapper, not inscribed or price clipped. The wrapper is chipped at the edges with some slight loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Bound in red cloth, a lovely clean tight copy, gilt titles, lack dust wrapper. ; 7.5" x 5.25"; 216 pages.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). 1950 1st edition. Small 8vo (185mm x 129mm). Ppviii,216. Binding B - yellow boards with red spine titles. Edges tanned but good-plus in poor dust-wrapper. Scarce in dust-wrapper. Thirteen short stories about the countryside: three of them with a theme of trout or salmon fishing in Ireland; several on fox-hunting in Ireland and in Snowdonia; one on "The Drawing Of The Curranwood Badgers"; and the others largely on wildfowling, shooting and poaching. Patrick O'Brian was born Richard Patrick Russ, changing his name by deed-poll in 1945. He wrote several books under his birth-name and a great number as Patrick O'Brian, including the Aubrey-Maturin series of maritime novels. The Last Pool was the first book he had published under his new name. There are two variant bindings of this book. Binding A. First issue. Light green cloth with spine title printed in dark blue. (130mm x 190mm). Binding B. Second issue. Yellow paper-covered boards with spine title printed in red. Slightly smaller format than the first issue (130mm x 185mm). This copy is of the second issue - Binding B. .

Hard. Condition: Good. Pages clean and bright, boards tidy, light spotting on top closed edge, spine sunned. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Very good publisher's yellow cloth hardcover. No inscriptions or marks. The unclipped dust jacket (price 9s. 6d) Is a trifle worn to extremities with small loss to rear lower corner. Thirteen short stories about "country life and the open air" and "excitement experienced in fishing, hunting, and shooting" ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). 1950 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 190mm). Ppviii,216. First issue (Binding A. Light green cloth with dark blue spine titles). Slight fading to spine, slight browning to end-papers and edges, good-plus. Tanned dust-wrapper chipped to head and foot of spine. Thirteen short stories about the countryside: three of them with a theme of trout or salmon fishing in Ireland; several on fox-hunting in Ireland and in Snowdonia; one on "The Drawing Of The Curranwood Badgers"; and the others largely on wildfowling, shooting and poaching. Patrick O'Brian was born Richard Patrick Russ, changing his name by deed-poll in 1945. He wrote several books under his birth-name and a great number as Patrick O'Brian, including the Aubrey-Maturin series of maritime novels. The Last Pool was the first book he had published under his new name. There are two variant bindings of this book. Binding A. First issue. Light green cloth with spine title printed in dark blue. (130mm x 190mm). Binding B. Second issue. Yellow paper-covered boards with spine title printed in red. Slightly smaller format than the first issue (130mm x 185mm). This is Binding A. .

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 216. Publisher's green cloth with navy titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket illustrated by Edward Bradbury, priced at 9/6. Internally crisp and clean. Cloth sunned to spine, corresponding to jacket losses. Jacket split to upper joint, with an archival repair, and toned to spine. Moderate wear and chipping to edges. Very good. Thirteen short stories about country life and sports, by the author of the Aubrey-Maturin 'Master and Commander' series.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A UK 1st edition, 1st Printing hardback copy indicated on the copyright page with no further printings mentioned. - THE AUTHOR'S RARE COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE AND THE OPEN AIR. THIS COPY IS COMPLETE IN YELLOW BOARDS (THE PUBLISHER ALSO RELEASED THIS EDITION IN GREEN BOARDS). - The book is in good condition for its age. The spine has a push to the top and bottom, and slight fading to the top and bottom. The yellow boards are in good condition and show small signs of ware, with a small black smudge mark to the bottom of the front board. There is a small bump to the top outside corner of the reverse board. The page block is sunned, with some foxing to the top. Internally, the pages are complete and have no inscriptions or tears. Overall, a good copy. - The dust jacket is in fair condition, but has not been price clipped with a price of 9s 6d net shown. The jacket is significantly torn. In particular, there is a large area of loss to the bottom of the front of the jacket (measuring approx 7.5 cm x 3.cm). There is also loss to the top and bottom of the spine cover (both measuring approx 2.5cm x 0.5cm). In addition, there are open tears where the front and reverse meet the flaps at the top and bottom. There are smaller tears to the top and bottom of the reverse. - So, overall a rare copy but with its flaws.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). 1950 1st edition. Small 8vo (185mm x 129mm). Ppviii,216. Binding B - yellow boards with red spine titles. Very good in slightly chipped but clean unclipped dust-wrapper. Scarce in dust-wrapper. Thirteen short stories about the countryside: three of them with a theme of trout or salmon fishing in Ireland; several on fox-hunting in Ireland and in Snowdonia; one on "The Drawing Of The Curranwood Badgers"; and the others largely on wildfowling, shooting and poaching. Patrick O'Brian was born Richard Patrick Russ, changing his name by deed-poll in 1945. He wrote several books under his birth-name and a great number as Patrick O'Brian, including the Aubrey-Maturin series of maritime novels. The Last Pool was the first book he had published under his new name. There are two variant bindings of this book. Binding A. First issue. Light green cloth with spine title printed in dark blue. (130mm x 190mm). Binding B. Second issue. Yellow paper-covered boards with spine title printed in red. Slightly smaller format than the first issue (130mm x 185mm). This copy is of the second issue - Binding B. .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). 1950 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 190mm). Ppviii,216. First issue (Binding A. Light green cloth with dark blue spine titles). Slightly used and foxed and faded. Small ink initials top corner of front end-paper, scattered light foxing, cloth patchily faded, particularly beneath a 10mm hole in the spine of the dust-wrapper. Good in chipped dust-wrapper. Very scarce in this condition. Thirteen short stories about the countryside: three of them with a theme of trout or salmon fishing in Ireland; several on fox-hunting in Ireland and in Snowdonia; one on "The Drawing Of The Curranwood Badgers"; and the others largely on wildfowling, shooting and poaching. Patrick O'Brian was born Richard Patrick Russ, changing his name by deed-poll in 1945. He wrote several books under his birth-name and a great number as Patrick O'Brian, including the Aubrey-Maturin series of maritime novels. The Last Pool was the first book he had published under his new name. There are two variant bindings of this book. Binding A. First issue. Light green cloth with spine title printed in dark blue. (130mm x 190mm). Binding B. Second issue. Yellow paper-covered boards with spine title printed in red. Slightly smaller format than the first issue (130mm x 185mm). This copy is of the first issue - Binding A. .

First published 1950. Barely discernable damp stain at top of back cover. (see photos). Previous owner's name in ink on free front endpaper. Otherwise fine. One eighth " chip from top and another at bottom of the spine and some other shallow chipping at top and bottom of spine. Otherwise fine. 12mo. Red paper covered boards textured to look like cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. "The Last Pool" by Patrick O'Brian. London, Secker & Warburg. 1950 first UK edition first printing. Book in good condition, with first issue dust jacket, with some chipping and repairs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's fourth book (and the first written under his now-familiar pseudonym). 8vo. 216pp. Green cloth lettered in blue at the spine. Some discolouration to the head of the upper board, and a little light spotting to four or five preliminary leaves, and to the top- and fore edges. A very crisp and bright copy in handsome non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, a little spotted internally and at the rear panel, and with a small area of loss from the front panel and spine ends. With a single tiny jagged tear and fairly superficial resulting creasing. Thirteen stories. Scarce. Cunningham A1a.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition of his first book to be published under this name. Collects thirteen short stories about "country life and the open air" and "excitement experienced in fishing, hunting, and shooting" (dust jacket flap). 12mo light green cloth lettered in black or perhaps dark blue on spine; 216 pages. Very good to near fine with spine ends sunned, first and last several leaves lightly foxed; in good dust jacket with 1/2-inch loss to head of spine (not affecting any lettering), foxing to verso visible on rear panel, and internal archival repair. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A first edition of the author's first book to be published in his name. A collection of 13 short stories about fishing, hunting & shooting. Rare variant crimson red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 216pp. Attractive green & black dustwrapper design by Edward Bradbury. Dustwrapper (priced at 9s 6d.) has careful and near-invisible, professional restoration to a sizeable area at the top of the front panel/head of spine. Neat ink name/date on pastedown. Scans & further details upon request. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition of his first book published under this name. SIGNED BY O'BRIAN on the title page. Crisp, clean and very good to near fine with sunning to spine through the dust jacket; in very good to near fine dust jacket with spine lettering a little tanned, corners nicked, and shallow chipping to head of spine. A scarce book that is scarce to rare signed. Signed.