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The Fortune of War
by O'Brian, Patrick
- Used
- Condition
- good to very good
- ISBN 10
- 0002224984
- ISBN 13
- 9780002224987
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
ST Jame's Place, London: William Collins Sons & Co., 1979. Undetermined. good to very good. 1st UK Edition. 280pp. Octavo. Original powder blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Wear and fading to edges of spine and along edges of boards. Some discolouration to endpapers with date written in blue ink on the bottom of the front free endpaper (not intrusive). Clean, tight text block. In dust jacket, not price clipped, with only slight wear to edges. A nice copy. good to very good The 6th book in the AubreyÑaturin series of novels, written by O'Brian, a celebrated English Author. The novel is set during the war of 1812 and centres on the friendship of English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irishуatalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20-novel series is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th-century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language. 1979
Synopsis
The Fortune of War, (1979) is a historical novel set during the War of 1812 and written by British author Patrick O'Brian.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132418
- Title
- The Fortune of War
- Author
- O'Brian, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - good to very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002224984
- ISBN 13
- 9780002224987
- Publisher
- William Collins Sons & Co.
- Place of Publication
- ST Jame's Place, London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- English Author|English Lit|First Edition|Literature|Royal Navy|War of 1812
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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