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Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ) | First Editions
1914 - 2000
See below our stock of Patrick O'Brian First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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Post Captain.
London: Collins, 1972. [Naval fiction] First Edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.414. Publisher's cloth in original pictorial jacket. No inscriptions or price-clipping. Minor sunning to extremities of book and jacket, tiny rub to crown. Overall a bright, near fine copy. The second in the long-running Jack Aubrey series. Patrick O'Brian... More
The Far Side of The World.
London: Collins, 1984. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 371; [5]. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Arthur Barbosa, clipped and re-priced at £9.95 by the publisher. Edges toned with some spotting. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Near fine. More
The Wine-Dark Sea.
London: Harper Collins, 1993. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 261; [5]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Geoff Hunt, priced at £14.99. Some toning and spotting to edges. Near fine. At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster... More
The Oxford Annual for Scouts.
London: Humphrey Milford, for the Oxford University Press. 1935. First Edition. Quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.192. Very good in original publisher's pictorial boards. Light edgewear, some light staining to rear panel. In a good example of the dustwrapper, bright and clean but with a significant triangular loss to rear panel... More
The Fortune of War.
London: Collins, 1979. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 280. Publisher's light blue cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket. Slight lean to the textblock, some dustiness to the top edge. Jacket price-clipped. Near fine. Patrick O'Brian won the 1995 Heywood Hill Literary Prize (Lifetime Contributon). More
The Nutmeg of Consolation.
London: Harper Collins. 1991. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 315. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pictorial dust wrapper shows, presumably, a view of the Cornelie from the deck of the eponymous Nutmeg of Consolation, with titles to front cover and spine, rear cover shows Binyon's review... More
The Nutmeg of Consolation.
London: Harper Collins. 1991. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 315. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pictorial dust wrapper shows, presumably, a view of the Cornelie from the deck of the eponymous Nutmeg of Consolation, with titles to front cover and spine, rear cover shows Binyon's review... More
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