Post Captain
by O'Brian, Patrick
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0006136664
- ISBN 13
- 9780006136668
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 9th.* Date of Publication: 1990 (1974)* Publisher: Fontana (Collins)* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers. No bumps, minor rubs to front edges. Very slight creases to top front corner. No creases to spine or hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, & tight. No Annotations or Inscriptions Very slight paper colouration throughout. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 496 pp. text.* Product Description:- Marine historical fiction at its best. An intrigueing story featuring Jack Aubrey and his friend Stephen Maturin. Their comfortable existence as country gentlemen is shattered as Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper. But after fleeing to France to escape debtors' prison, he finds himself hunted as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf wear & tanning reducing it to VG.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2612
- Title
- Post Captain
- Author
- O'Brian, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0006136664
- ISBN 13
- 9780006136668
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 416
- Date Published
- 1999-01-01
- Size
- 17.3 x 11.2 x 3.6 cm
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.