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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Full page frontispiece w/ facing text key "The sails of a square-rigged ship" (illustrator). Collected Uniform Norton Edition. MAJESTIC: TERRIFYING: THRILLING: NEW: Book V: Collected Uniform Norton Edition of the Aubrey-Maturin Novels: First Edition hardcover (Orig.1978: The Collected Uniform Norton Edition, November 1994) w/ no. line at "1" First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected gloss-laminated color "Uniform Norton Edition" jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $22.50 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf & w/ the distinctive "Uniform Norton Edition" butterscotch-cream spine w/ title panel at top & Roman-enumeration "V" & pub. logo below & w/ color illustrated front panel, NEW library-durable marine-blue linen wrapping spine & extending 1.88" onto front & back panels handsomely-covered in EXCELLENT pale-blue paper w/ author's initials PO'B blind-stamped at bottom-right of front panel & w/ titles elegantly gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE unmarked text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top-bottom edges & cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW durably-tight perfect binding, PRISTINE interior printed w handsome clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 5.86" x 8.50" x 1.24", 0.60 kg, 330 pp * ILLUSTRATION: Full page frontispiece w/ facing text key "The sails of a square-rigged ship" * ABOUT THE BOOK: "The relationship [between Aubrey & Maturin] is about the best thing afloat. For Conradian power of description & sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the out-gunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four." -Stephen Vaughan, Observer. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey & his friend & surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia w/ a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful & dangerous spy, & a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. W/ a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, out-gunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes. Here the ingredients of a powerful & dramatic novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose has the majesty & terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an antarctic storm in which Jack's ship, outmanned & outgunned, is the quarry not the hunter. * HIGHEST PRAISE FOR PATRICK O'BRIAN: "Taken together, the novels are a brilliant achievement. They display staggering erudition on almost all aspects of early 19th-ventury life, w/ impeccable period detail. [Compared to Forester's characters] Aubrey & Maturin are subtler, richer items; in addition Patrick O'Brian has a gift for the comic which Forester lacks." -T.J. Binyon, TLS "O'Brian is astonishingly good." -The Times, London. "The best historical novels ever written." -Richard Snow, NYT. "Aubrey & Maturin compose one of those complex & fascinating pairs of characters which have inspired thrilling stories of all kinds since the 'Iliad'." -John Bayley & Iris Murdoch. "O'Brian's sheer brilliance as a writer constantly dazzles & his power over the reader is unique. He is the master." -Kevin Myers, Irish Press * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: In addition to 21 volumes in the highly acclaimed Abrey-Maturin series, PATRICK O'BRIAN 's many novels include "Testimonies", "The Golden Ocean" & "The Unknown Shore". O'Brian also wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso & Sir Joseph Banks & translated many works from the French, among them the novels & memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean Lacouture's biography of Charles DeGaulle. For many years he & his wife made their home in the south of France. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & to international destinations via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL at our posted rates. Seller Inventory # 009770
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