The Commodore (First American Edition)

Patrick O'Brian

ISBN 10: 0002555506 / ISBN 13: 9780002555500

Published by Norton, New York, 1995

New York: Norton, 1995. First American edition. First printing (with full number line including the 1). Hardcover. Near Fine in a fine dust jacket. Some slight spinbe slant. Publisher's original price of $22.50 on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. The 17th novel in the Aubrey Maturin series, following Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic Wars. The series order is as follows: Master and Commander (1969); Post Captain (1972); HMS Surprise (1973); The Mauritius Command (1977); Desolation Island (1978); The Fortune of War (1979); The Surgeon's Mate (1980); The Ionian Mission (1981); Treason's Harbour (1983); The Far Side of the World (1984); The Reverse of the Medal (1986); The Letter of Marque (1988); The Thirteen-Gun Salute (1989); The Nutmeg of Consolation (1991); Clarissa Oakes (1992); The Wine-Dark Sea (1993); The Commodore (1995); The Yellow Admiral (1996); The Hundred Days (1998); Blue at the Mizzen (1999); and the unfinished 21 (2004). Seller Inventory # Sale-Fiction-Obrian

Synopsis:

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition, 1st Impression. [vi] + 282pp. Royal 8vo. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, clean tight sound square, well held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges. Bound in very good bright gilt lettered blue cloth gently rubbed to spine, housed and protected in very good unclipped original colour pictorial dustwrapper, featuring ship at sea wraparound illustration. No fading to gently rubbed spine. A delight for reader and collector alike.

Review: After several installments of gallivanting around the South Seas, Aubrey and Maturin return home to England, where the surgeon-cum-intelligence-agent discovers that his wife has disappeared. As if such a domestic crisis weren't enough, the intrepid pair are also dispatched to the Gulf of Guinea (to suppress the slave trade) and to Ireland (to rebuff an impending French invasion.) O'Brian's stunning range, coupled with his mind-bending command of minutiae, explain why James Hamilton-Paterson has called him "the Homer of the Napoleonic Wars."

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Commodore (First American Edition)
Publisher: Norton, New York
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition