The Mauritius Command (1st Edition)

Patrick O'Brian

ISBN 10: 000222383X / ISBN 13: 9780002223836

Published by Collins, 1977

Green boards with gilt titles to the spine. Ex library with a stamp to the copyright page and end page has been removed. Otherwise it is a nice copy that only looks lightly read. Jacket is not price clipped. Jacket has some creasing. A hard to find 1st print. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. Seller Inventory # s18208

Synopsis:

Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are now widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets.

Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command ― until his friend, and occasional intelligence agent, Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodore’s pennant.

But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains ― Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity can push his crews to the verge of mutiny.

About the Author:

Patrick O’Brian, until his death in 2000, was one of our greatest contemporary novelists. He is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He is the author of many other books including Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime’s contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He lived for many years in South West France and he died in Dublin in January 2000.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Mauritius Command (1st Edition)
Publisher: Collins
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition.