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Buy this book on-line KENT**, ALEXANDER [pseud Douglas Reeman]: : Sloop of War [1778]LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1972. ISBN 0091112907.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,crisp,clean and unfaded,glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork [painting of 'Action between Velos Passahera and HMS Primrose' by W.J. Huggins,engraved by E.Duncan - National Maritime Museum.] illustrated upper wrap+ spine/backstrip; with negligible creasing and shelf-wear to edges,a tiny,tiny closed nick to head of spine/backstrip with a small 1" closed tear to top edge of rear inner flap.Both inner flaps of dw/dj minimally creased.Both top+fore-edges minimally aged,but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,clean,maroon paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip which is minimally bumped,with immaculate black+ grey map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,11-319pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents list/table,18 chapters+epilogue.
For the young Richard Bolitho the spring of 1778 marked a complete transformation for himself and his future.It was the year
in which the American War of Independence changed to an all-out struggle for freedom
from British rule - and the year when Bolitho took command of the Sparrow,a small,fast and well-armed sloop of war. As the pace of war increased,the Sparrow was called from one crisis to another - and when the great fleets of Britain and France converged on the Chesapeake, Bolitho had to throw aside the early dreams of his first command to find maturity in a sea battle that might decide
the fate of the whole continent.Author's 5th Richard Bolitho novel in the series.
See also,following sequential,alpha-numeric book ID's rja26317 to rja26387 for further Richard Bolitho novels/titles from this series.
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