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The Surgeon's Mate
by O'Brian, Patrick
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- very good
- ISBN 10
- 0002224062
- ISBN 13
- 9780002224062
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
ST Jame's Place, London: William Collins Sons & Co., 1980. Undetermined. very good. 1st UK Edition. 315pp. Octavo. Original deep red cloth with gilt lettering on spine; light bumping to extremities. Small stain on each of the boards. Previous owners name on front free endpaper. Clean, tight text block with only a small stain to long outer edge and some light wear to some places on the outer edges. In dust jacket, price clipped. The jacket has some light wear and yellowing to outer edges, else is very nice. A lovely copy. very good The 7th book in the AubreyÑaturin series of novels, written by O'Brian, a celebrated English Author. The novels are set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred 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. 1980
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132415
- Title
- The Surgeon's Mate
- Author
- O'Brian, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002224062
- ISBN 13
- 9780002224062
- Publisher
- William Collins Sons & Co.
- Place of Publication
- ST Jame's Place, London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Aubrey-Maturin Series|English Author|English Lit|First Edition|Literature|Napoleonic Wars|Royal Navy
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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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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