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The Commodore
by O'Brian, Patrick
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- very good
- ISBN 10
- 0002555506
- ISBN 13
- 9780002555500
- Seller
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. 282pp. Octavo. Original blue cloth with Gilt lettering on spine. Spine has a light vertical crease and some light wear to ends. Clean, tight text block. In dust jacket, not price clipped. Jacket has some light wear to edges and corners. A nice copy. very good A 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. 1994
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132394
- Title
- The Commodore
- Author
- O'Brian, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002555506
- ISBN 13
- 9780002555500
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Aubrey-Maturin Series|English Author|English Lit|First Edition|Literature|Napoleonic Wars|Royal Navy
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
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