Master and Commander by O'Brian, Patrick - 1969

E-049. Very Good. 1969. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA. 1969. 352 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is clipped along the botttom edge of the front flap). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. HIghlighter or remainder mark present to the top and bottom edge of the text block. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R. N. , and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a 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. E-049; 7.7 X 5.5 X 1.3 inches; 384 pages .