Sharpes Tiger Siege Seringapatam by Cornwell Bernard, First Edition (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: VG+/VG+. y First Edition. SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 7th.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers showing different design to cover showing single ?Tiger? flint lock pistol. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge but slightly creased at front corners. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No marks. No Annotations or Inscriptions, seems very lightly read if at all. Very lightly tanned to page edges. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 379 pp. text. v pp. Blank pages and advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- The prequel to the series, describing Sharpe's experiences in India, repackaged to tie in with the fantastic new Sharpe look. Throughout the series, there are references to Sharpe's early soldiering life in India. With the same meticulous research and attention to detail that is found in the Peninsular War books, Bernard Cornwell has sumptuously recreated the 1799 campaign against Seringapatam which made the British masters of southern India, a campaign that pitted brutalized soldiers against an ancient and splendid civilization. Sharpe, the rest of his battalion and rising star of the general staff Arthur Wellesley, are about to embark upon the siege of the island citadel of the Tippoo of Mysore, Seringapatam.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with only minor faults reducing it to VG+.*. n.

Pp. 304, double page map; med. 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle canted; dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; HarperCollins, London, 1997. First edition. *A prequel to the Sharpe series, detailing his adventures in India, before the Peninsular War.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. First printing. 400pp. Some very slight shelf wear and tanning to text block o/w a lovely copy. OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition, 8vo, 304pp, VG+ Copy in VG+ DJ; author's presentation copy, inscription on title page reads: For Harry, Happy Birthday! Bernard Cornwell Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Douglas Smith (illustrator). First Edition Thus; First Printing. Stiff unmarked book in decorated blood-red cloth; in blue slipcase with faint shelfwear. ; 363 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Douglas Smith (illustrator). Introduction by the author. First printing thus. Fine in a fine slipcase. ; 363 pages.

8vo., First Edition, with double-page map in the text; re cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by David Scutt.

8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece, 6 coloured plates and 2 double-page maps; red pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, black endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case blocked in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON PLATE MOUNTED ON BLANK PRELIMINARY. In this edition the two monochrome plates of the stadard FS edition are replaced by six coloured plates. Limited FS edition of the first novel in Cornwell's immensely successful Sharpe sequence.

[Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 79 of 99 in a special binding signed by the author. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp. [2]; 303; [1]. Quarter bound in red leatherette lettered in gilt to spine with marbled paper over boards. Illustrated map of the Siege of Seringapatam to pg.8-9. As new. Cornwell's Sharpe novels are distinguished by their meticulous research and attention to historical detail. In this novel, young private soldier Richard Sharpe is in India, about to embark on the Siege of Seringapatam. This edition is signed by the author in black ink to page one. This limited edition is bound from the sheets of the first edition of 'Sharpe's Tiger' published by Harper Collins, and is number 79 of the 99 copies which were produced in this attractive binding.