Buy this book on-line CUNNINGHAM**, A. E - Edited by: : PATRICK O'BRIAN: CRITICAL APPRECIATIONS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY.**UK.WETHERBY.THE BRITISH LIBRARY,1994. ISBN 0712310703.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st limited, trade edn.NMINT/NMINT.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Protected,colour wrap around artwork by Geoff Hunt; with negligible shelf-wear and no nicks or tears to edges.Top+fore-edges clean, contents pristine.Blue paper-covered bds with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and plain dark blue eps.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st ltd trade edn,,10-171pp includes half-title+title pages,contents+
illustrations lists,an intro by William Waldegrave,4pp b/w photographs+drawings, b/w chapter head+tail-pieces,biblio+ reviews,notes+references,and notes on the contributors.Contributors include historian+author Richard Ollard,John Bayley,actor+director Charlton Heston, academics N A M Rodger and Brian Lavery, Louis Jolyon West, biblio by A. E. Cunningham (professional librarian), and literary reviews by Stuart Bennett.Patrick O'Brian himself contributes an autobiographical essay (his only) and two short stories,Samphire (his best known) and Simon.Printed in April 1994 in a printing of 1300 copies of which 1000 copies comprised the trade edn [ISBN No 0-7123-1070-3],printed and bound by Redwood Books,Trowbridge; 250 copies of the collectors' edn [0-7123-1071-1] bound by Hartnoll of Bodmin,and 50 copies of the limited edn [0-7123-1072-X] bound by Cedric Chivers of Bath.
Patrick O'Brian was the well-known author of the Jack Aubrey novels,set during the Napoleonic wars.
They are acknowledged by critics and readers alike as classic works of fiction and attracting an increasingly wider audience.O'Brian is also a translator of note and the author of several biographies and other works of non-fiction.His first books appeared over forty years ago (then 1994) to wide and enduring critical acclaim.This compilation of essays is an appreciation of Patrick O'Brian's writing life.An exceptional,unread copy of a scarce,true first trade edn.
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UK,slim 8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st trade edn.[A printing of only 1,300 copies comprising 1,000 trade edns,250 copies the collectors' edns,and 50 copies the limited edns - each edition bound by different binders.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Dw/dj protected from day of issue/purchase. Bright,crisp,clean+protected,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by Geoff Hunt illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - almost as new.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy.Clean, unblemished,publisher's original dark blue cloth bds with bright,pristine,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,10-175pp [paginated] includes William Waldegrave intro,three short stories by Patrick O'Brian and articles by Richard Ollard, John Bayley, Charlton Heston, N.A.M. Rodger, Brian Levery, Louis Jolyon West,a bibliography by A.E. Cunningham and a collection of reviews by Stuart Bennett,illustrated with 4pp b/w photographs and drawings between pp72/3 and b/w line illus chapter tail- pieces,notes on the contributors,plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages, contents list/table,list of plates and acknowledgements.
Author of the well-known Jack Aubrey novels,set during the Napoleonic Wars.They are acknowledged by critics and readers alike as classic works of fiction and are attracting an increasingly wide audience. Patrick O'Brian is also a translator of note and the author of several biographies and other works of non-fiction.His first books appeared over forty years ago to wide and enduring critical acclaim.This compilation of essays is an appreciation of Patrick O'Brian's writing life.As well as an autobiographical essay it also includes Samphire,one of Patrick O'Brian's best known short stories.It includes contributions from eminent academics such as N A M Rodger and Brian Lavery.
Historian and author Richard Ollard adds a wide-ranging overview of Patrick O'Brian's writing and the book contains other appreciations from admirers and critics including the actor and director Charlton Heston.The bibliography is a comprehensive and authoritative account of all Mr O'Brian's writing to date (then 1994).A must for Jack Aubrey collectors.
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