MASTER AND COMMANDER [Special edition including bonus book: MEN-OF-WAR] by Patrick O'Brian

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[50th Anniversary Special Edition.Originally first published and the author's debut novel of the series (UK,1970),together with THE complete text of 'Men-Of-War' previously unavailable,a new foreword by his stepson and biographer Nikolai Tolstoy,an artist's note by Geoff Hunt who illustrated the books' dws/djs and facsimile reproductions of a selection of letters from the author to his editor.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial artwork by Geoff Hunt,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with a gilt-bordered edges,along with capitalised gilt lettered author name,capitalised master lettered titles and gilt lettered Foreword by Nikolai Tolstoy; and a acircular gilt-edged border with capitalised black-lettered ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION around an inner black circle with white 50th notation,spine/ backstrip with gilt-edged black panel with repeated coloured lettering of capitalised gilt-lettered author name and… Read More