Post Captain (SIGNED AS-NEW TRADE PAPERBACK)

Book 2 of 21: Aubrey/Maturin Novels

O'Brian, Patrick

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ISBN 10: 0393307069 ISBN 13: 9780393307061

Published by W.W.Norton & Company, Philadelphia and New York, 1992

Language: English

Condition: Used - As new Soft cover

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A trade paperback copy of O'Brian's second Aubrey-Maturin novel, as-new unread, lined & signed "Patrick O'Brian" (full name, only) to the title page. Although the hardcover first edition was William Collins 1972, this copy states "first published as a Norton paperback 1990 by arrangement with William Collins & Sons Co. Ltd." Furthermore, this isn't the first octavo paperback, thus. At the bottom of the copyright page we find the single numeral "0," off center, significance a bit cryptic, but possibly indicating a 10th printing, thus. Lists 15 Aubrey/Maturin novels through "The Truelove" (1992.) Action adventure Nelson's navy Napoleonic Wars, 496 pp., reduced from $650.

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Title

Post Captain (SIGNED AS-NEW TRADE PAPERBACK)

Publisher

W.W.Norton & Company, Philadelphia and New York

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0393307069

ISBN 13

9780393307061

Binding

Soft cover

Illustrator

Cover illustration by Geoff Hunt

Printing

5th or later Printin

Condition

As New

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

"Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book." ―Mary Renault

"We've beat them before and we'll beat them again." In 1803 Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., taking refuge in France from his creditors, is interned. He escapes from France, from debtors' prison, and from a possible mutiny, and pursues his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor.

About the Author

One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

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