RAMAGE AT TRAFALGAR. by POPE**, DUDLEY:

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE-/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj, but minus front free endpaper.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Paul Wright,illustrated dw/dj with dark grey lettering to dw/djs' panels, spine/backstrip ubiquitously sunned/faded with blue+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Majority of light creasing is to top edges of dw/dj; some minor, superficial scoring to either panel too - but without any adverse affect to bds beneath.Top+fore -edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - text body near pristine - no foxing/spotting,and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and clean but lightly toned pastedowns and rear free endpaper.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 1-214pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters each with b/w vignette chapter headpiece illustration,plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w vignette illustrated title page,author's note,a dedication,and 2 b/w city+environs maps (CADIZ) each with thumbnail regional map inserts. Nicholas Ramage's marriage has been dogged by drama: their honeymoon was disrupted,Sarah,his young bride,was taken prisoner by the French,he was sent to the Caribbean . . . At last it seems that they are going to enjoy several months of each other's company in the house in Kent which Nicholas has inherited from an uncle. But young Captain Ramage has already come to the notice of Admiral Nelson.Hearing that he is available,Nelson asks for him by name.In no time Ramage is ordered to get back to his frigate,the Calypso,immediately and sent to join the fleet under Nelson's command which is blocking the combined French and Spanish navies off Cadiz. Poor Sarah is distraught when news filters through that one of the biggest naval battles the world has ever known is being fought off Cape Trafalgar.She is comforted,however,by the knowledge that frigates do not stand in the line of battle - by tradition,the smaller ships keep back.But Ramage,if she but knew it,is no more a respecter of tradition than Nelson . . . In this,his sixteenth 'Ramage' novel,Dudley Pope uses a major naval battle as an element in his plot.If anything,this makes for even greater suspense and more furious action. For the author's factual and historical account of the Battle of Trafalgar see my book ID rja1034. A highly collected and prolific author,his 16th RAMAGE title in POPE's bold style,and will be an important and welcome addition to the 'RAMAGE' canon.
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