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O'BRIAN**, PATRICK [pseud Richard Patrick Russ]: : THE WINE DARK SEA.**

LONDON.HARPER COLLINS,1993.

ISBN 0002238268.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 9 - 1 descending. MINT/FINE.Price-clipped dw/dj. Bright pristine pages and fore-edge. One of the scarce later titles - this the 16th - in the series,becoming scarcer,owing to a lower print run for this title. Continuing saga with Jack Aubrey.The novels are set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish/Catalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20 completed novels and one uncompleted nove,are set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish?atalan physician Stephen Maturin.The series is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th-century naval life,as well as its authentic and evocative language. Want more Patrick O'BRIAN titles? Other titles available - please check my MODERN FIRSTS2 and BIOGRAPHY catalogues,for other and similar titles,works. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

O'BRIAN**, PATRICK [pseud Richard Patrick Russ]: : THE WINE DARK SEA.**

LONDON.HARPER COLLINS,1993.

ISBN 0002238268.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj. Continuing saga with Jack Aubrey.One of the scarce later titles - this the 16th - in the series,,becoming scarcer,owing to a lower print run for this title. At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight,Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephen's objective is to set the revolutionary tinder in South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on the British government which has blundered into war with the young and uncomfortably vigorous United States. Want more Patrick O'BRIAN titles? Other titles available - please check my MODERN FIRSTS2 and BIOGRAPHY catalogues,for other and similar titles,works. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

O'BRIAN**, PATRICK [pseud Richard Patrick Russ]: : THE WINE DARK SEA.**

LONDON.HARPER COLLINS,1993.

ISBN 0002238268.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 9 - 1 descending.] FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,wrap-around,colour pictorial artwork by Geoff Hunt,illustrated dw/dj with author's capitalised,bright,blocked gilt-lettered name and capitalised,orange-lettered title to a navy blue panel with an orange surround with black, single-lined borders - externally and internally respectively,to front's gutter's corner.Spine/backstrip with sunning to thumbnail,repeated front's author+title panel's orange borders' faded to white,as with the title lettering too, with publisher's white-lettered name and colour illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with black,single-lined borders - externally and internally - to an orange panel with 3 critics' black-lettered reviewstransposed over the illustration beneath.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present and virtually scoring/indent-free. Exceptionally bright and clean,but with some inevitable,but very light ageing/toning to top+ fore-edges with a single speck and two speck blemish(es) to top+fore-edges respectively - but no other foxing/spotting.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain purple cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-261pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and to the rear,4pp blanks.            Visually the external appearance is more than acceptable and particularly internally,is in an exceptional condition of preservation and presentation for a book of it's 30+ year-old age.It is only the minimal faults described,that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite that,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for it's brightness, cleanliness and lack of other age-acquired detracting faults.    Continuing saga with Jack Aubrey.One of the scarce later titles - this the 16th - in the series,,becoming scarcer,owing to a lower print run for this title. At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephen's objective is to set the revolutionary tinder in South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on the British government which has blundered into war with the young and uncomfortably vigorous United States. Want more Patrick O'BRIAN titles? Other titles available - please check my MODERN FIRSTS2 and BIOGRAPHY catalogues,for other and similar titles,works. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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