The Unknown Shore
by O'Brian, Patrick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription. Moderate foxing to page edges. Dustjacket spine very faded. Some rubbing and wear to corners of dustjacket. Dustjacket is price-clipped. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 256 pages. Maroon boards with silverlettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 128mm. .
Synopsis
The Unknown Shore is a novel published in 1959 by Patrick O'Brian. It is the story of two friends, Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow who sail aboard HMS Wager as part of Anson's 1740 expedition. The midshipman Byron and somewhat unworldly surgeon's mate Barrow are prototypes for Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin who appear in many of O'Brian's later novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17639
- Title
- The Unknown Shore
- Author
- O'Brian, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1959)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
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- Good+
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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