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The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian [Richard Patrick Russ], First UK Edition with Dust Jacket

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A First UK Edition, [First Printing] of 'The Commodore' by Patrick O'Brian [Richard Patrick Russ] in Very Good+ condition in a Very Good+ condition dust jacket published by HarperCollins in 1994

The Commodore [Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin Series Number Seventeen] by Patrick O'Brian [Richard Patrick Russ], First UK Edition with Dust Jacket

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Condition Summary: (Very Good+/Very Good+) A very tidy, tightly bound book with clean boards and pages, in a clean bright dust jacket. All notable faults: A few minor marks on the endpapers

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Book Number B0014994
Title The Commodore
Author(s) Author: O'Brian, Patrick [Richard Patrick Russ]

Patrick O'Brian [Pseudonym for Richard Patrick Russ] (1914 to 2000)—An English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and physician Stephen Maturin

Edition and Format First UK Edition, [First Printing] Book edition identified by: Publisher's stated imprint information and publisher's imprint line 13579108642. Dust jacket edition identified by: Priced £14.99 on the front flap

Hardcover, Octavo 222 mm (8 3/4 inches) by 145 mm (5 3/4 inches). [vi] and 282 printed pages in publisher's original blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in dust jacket. ISBN 0002555506 [9780002555500]
Publisher(s) HarperCollins, London, 1994
Series Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin Series Number Seventeen

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin Series—A series of nautical historical novels set during the Napoleonic Wars and featuring Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin. Titles include: Master and Commander, Post Captain, HMS Surprise, The Mauritius Command, Desolation Island, The Fortune of War, The Surgeon's Mate, The Ionian Mission, Treason's Harbour, The Far Side of the World, The Reverse of the Medal, The Letter of Marque, The Thirteen Gun Salute, The Nutmeg of Consolation, Clarissa Oakes, The Wine-Dark Sea, The Commodore, The Yellow Admiral, The Hundred Days, Blue at the Mizzen and The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey

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The seventeenth book in the Jack Aubrey And Stephen Maturin Series. Aubrey is promoted to Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is to disrupt the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on his return, to intercept a French fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish.

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