Last Pool by Patrick Obrian (16 results)
Language: English
Published by Secker & Warburg 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United KingdomM Godding Books Ltd
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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.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Secker & Warburg, London 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United KingdomLazarus Books Limited
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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 l…ower 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.
Language: English
Published by Secker and Warburg, London 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, IrelandTemple Bar Bookshop
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 88.65
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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.
More imagesPublished by Secker & Warburg, London 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo RPO Country Club, BC, CanadaLuis Porretta Fine Arts
Contact seller3-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 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.
Published by Secker & Warburg. London. 1950 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, , United KingdomCoch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd
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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 co…untryside: 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. .
Published by Secker and Warburg, London 1950
- Hardcover
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, , United KingdomBookcase
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Hard. Condition: Good. Pages clean and bright, boards tidy, light spotting on top closed edge, spine sunned. Size: 8vo.
Published by Secker & Warburg, London 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Horsham Rare Books, Horsham, , United KingdomHorsham Rare Books
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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 op…en air" and "excitement experienced in fishing, hunting, and shooting" ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages.
Published by Secker & Warburg. London. 1950 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, , United KingdomCoch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd
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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. .
More imagesPublished by London: Secker & Warburg, 1950 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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US$ 102.22
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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 uppe…r 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.
Published by Secker & Warburg. London. 1950 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, , United KingdomCoch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd
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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 stori…es 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. .
Published by Secker & Warburg. London. 1950 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, , United KingdomCoch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd
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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, sc…attered 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. .
More imagesPublished by Secker and Warburg, London 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Frogtown Books, Inc. ABAA, Toledo, OH, U.S.A.Frogtown Books, Inc. ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst 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 text…ured to look like cloth.
Published by London, Secker & Warburg 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, , NetherlandsNeverland Books
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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.
More imagesPublished by Secker & Warburg, London 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, , United KingdomClearwater Books
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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.
More imagesPublished by Secker & Warburg 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Bookshop on the Heath Ltd, London, United KingdomThe Bookshop on the Heath Ltd
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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 desig…n 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.
Published by Martin Secker & Warburg, London 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, AustraliaArapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex
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Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. VG+/VG. 12mo. original yellow boards (a trifle rubbed & marked, occ. faint spot) in dustwrapper priced 9s. 6d. net (a little rubbed & frayed, occ. tiny edge chip); pp. [viii (last blank)], 216. A very good copy.
