Cover Patrick O'brian (10 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Third Printing. 411 pages. Very minor front cover edge wear and slightly turned up corners The first of the Aubrey-Maturin novels depicting the early 19th century Royal Navy and is set on board a man-of-war in Nelson's navy during the Napoleonic wars. Should be read in order because the last chapter of the preceding volume is really the first chapter of the next. They are in effect one great book. Beautiful cover on a sailing ship in harbor with a cutter rowing up to the ship. Frontispiece is black and white illustration of the sails of a square rigged ship, hung out to dry, in a calm. Sails numbered and identified. Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle. When Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to captain, he inherits command of HMS Sophie, an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Captain Aubrey is a brave and gifted seaman, his thirst for adventure and victory immense. With the aid of his friend Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and secret intelligence agent, Aubrey and his crew engage in a stunning clash with a mighty Spanish frigate against whose guns and manpower the tiny Sophie is hopelessly outmatched. Hunt, Geoff - Cover (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. MAGAZINE. NICE COPY. stapled binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Third Edition. 317 pgs. "Jack Aubrey leaves Nelson's fleet for England, expecting a fortune in prize money and marriage with his beloved Sophie. Instead he comes back to a debtors' prison, and no prospect of a ship. But soon he has a new command, the Surprise, with order to sail for the east. And somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies a prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams-the ships that Napoleon has sent to attack the China Fleet." >> Minor cover indents. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Paul Wright Painted cover! (illustrator). Book.…

Digest-sized Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First published in 1970, this is the first of the splendid series of the Jack Aubrey nautical novels and the basis for the film of the same name starring Russel Crowe. A near-mint copy. Geoff Hunt (cover) (illustrator).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. 7th Printing. 412 pp. Book shows heavy use, but still a good reading copy with clean text. Slanted spine. Geoff Hunt (Cover Illustration) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. This is the 1984 Collins edition of O'Brian's1972 Aubrey/Maturin novel, the second in the series. It bears the distinctive Barbosa cover, a woman (Sophie?) sidesaddle on horseback in a vignette bordered by golden nautical equipment. 414 pp. Reduced from $50. Cover illustration by Arthur Barbosa (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. (1st American edition). NY: Stein and Day, 1979. (1st American edition). hardcover. VERY GOOD. Book is as new except for a little dust spotting to top edge of text block and light softening of spine ends. Jacket (Riou, cover art) is crisp and clean but has a small 1/4" tear to top back edge. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin take the Leopard to New South Wales in a trip around the Horn. 5.5" X 8.5" 276 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. This is the 1986 Collins edition of O'Brian's 1977 Aubrey/Maturin novel, the fourth in the series. It bears the distinctive Barbosa cover, a group of British seamen examine a gigantic tortoise, in a vignette bordered by golden nautical equipment. The page edges are noticeably browned. 268 pp. Here reduced from $52. Cover illustration by Arthur Barbosa (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First. Binding blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dj now protected inside a cover. Print run reads 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. Cover: Geoff Hunt (illustrator). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 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. Cover illustration by Geoff Hunt (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…