The Commodore : First printing

O'Brian, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0002555506 / ISBN 13: 9780002555500

Published by HarperCollins, London, United Kingdom, 1994

About this Item

True first British printing (full print run includes '1'). With original unclipped jacket (£14.99). Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, the odd very small mark, minor fading to spine, old bookshop sticker to back and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners. Boards are near fine with light crease to spine (book has been read), a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Minor spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are tanned (due to quality of paper used). Very occasional small mark/minor foxing to page edges and bottoms. Top of pages have the odd small mark/mild foxing. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Commodore : First printing
• Publisher: HarperCollins, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002555506
• ISBN 13: 9780002555500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

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."