Buy this book on-line STOCKWIN**, JULIAN: : KYDD.**LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2001. ISBN 0340794739.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,laminated,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by Geoff Hunt,illustrated dw/dj,with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore -edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine -no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Sharp-cornered,bright,clean, publisher's original dark blue cloth boards
bds with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters
to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white srets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,1- 373pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,quotation and acknowledgements to rear.Author's first Thomas Paine Kydd novel/title in a planned series of 11.Very uncommon,with a low print run.
1793.Europe is ablaze with war.The Prime Minister,Pitt,is under pressure to make an active move at sea,and despatches a squadron to appear off the French coast.To man the ships,ordinary people must be press-ganged.
Thomas Paine Kydd,a young wig-maker from
Guildford,is seized,taken across country to Sheerness and the great fleet anchorage of the Nore to be part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship Duke William.
The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to
learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast;but despite al that he goes through in danger of tempest and battle he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen - taking up the challenge himself to become a true sailor.
'Kydd' launches a masterly new writing talent and a thrilling new series.Based on dramatic real events,it is classic storytelling at its very best,rich with action,exceptional characters and a page-turning narrative.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by Geoff Hunt,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore -edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Sharp-cornered,bright,clean, publisher's original,dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 1-373pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters; plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages, quotation and acknowledgements to rear. Author's first Thomas Paine Kydd novel/ title in a planned series of 11.Very uncommon,with a low print run.
1793.Europe is ablaze with war.
The Prime Minister,Pitt,is under pressure to make an active move at sea,and despatches a squadron to appear off the French coast.To man the ships,ordinary people must be press-ganged.Thomas Paine Kydd,a young wig-maker from Guildford,is seized,taken across country to Sheerness and the great fleet anchorage of the Nore to be part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship Duke William.The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast; but despite all that he goes through in danger of tempest and battle he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen - taking up the challenge himself to become a true sailor. 'Kydd' launches a masterly new writing talent and a thrilling new series.Based on dramatic real events,it is classic storytelling at its very best,rich with action,exceptional characters and a page-turning narrative.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete Number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by Geoff Hunt,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore -edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Sharp-cornered,bright,clean, publisher's original,dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-373pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters; plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages, quotation and acknowledgements to rear. Author's first Thomas Paine Kydd novel/ title in a planned series of 11.Very uncommon,with a low print run.See also rja406011 and rja503414 for similar examples of this same title.
1793.Europe is ablaze with war.The Prime Minister,Pitt,is under pressure to make an active move at sea,and despatches a squadron to appear off the French coast.To man the ships,ordinary people must be press-ganged.
Thomas Paine Kydd,a young wig-maker from Guildford,is seized,taken across country to Sheerness and the great fleet anchorage of the Nore to be part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship Duke William.The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast; but despite all that he goes through in danger of tempest and battle he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen - taking up the challenge himself to become a true sailor.
'Kydd' launches a masterly new writing talent and a thrilling new series.Based on dramatic real events,it is classic storytelling at its very best,rich with action,exceptional characters and a page-turning narrative.
Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers -BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.
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UK,12mo p/back,SIGNED,1st edn,9th imp. FINE-.No owner inscrptn,but author's oblique-angled,neat handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page,no price removal from cover - absence of publisher's price.Assumed an export copy,of which the first print,1st edn would normally precede the UK trade issues. Indications from the rear cover of other sequential and already published Kydd-related titles availabity,so this would appear specifically to be an export edn/ issue awaiting pricing at whichever country's destination.With an original low print run,as both an author's debut and the debut novel,it's subsequent sucess and popularity/demand would facilate later impressions both before and after any following title issues.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,matt, montaged (colour photograph portrait to front's card cover) and wrap-around illustrated covers - illustrated artwork by Geoff Hunt,with yellow+white lettering to front cover plus a b/w circular adhesive 'Signed by the Author' label to top front corner,similar coloured letters to spine/backstrip,rear cover with white+yellow lettered story synopsis and critics' reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present and no reading creases to spine/backstrip. Top+fore-edges remarkably bright and clean - hardly aged/toned and without blemish - particularly considering the paperback's age; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,other than my own collation.UK,12mo p/back,SIGNED,1st edn,9th imp,2-440pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters and acknowledgements,plus an extra single preview chapter of following and forthcoming tile 'ARTEMIS' [HB - April,2002 and p/back Novemeber,2002.]; plus [unpaginated] critics' reviews,author SIGNED title page,an epigram (Horatio Nelson) with blank verso.
Author's debut and the first Thomas Paine Kydd novel/title in a planned series of 11. Very uncommon,with a low print run.See also rja406011 and rja503414 for similar examples of this same title.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. an ephemeral paper item,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.
1793.Europe is ablaze with war.The Prime Minister,Pitt,is under pressure to make an active move at sea,and despatches a squadron to appear off the French coast.To man the ships,ordinary people must be press-ganged.
Thomas Paine Kydd,a young wig-maker from Guildford,is seized,taken across country to Sheerness and the great fleet anchorage of the Nore to be part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship Duke William.The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast; but despite all that he goes through in danger of tempest and battle he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen - taking up the challenge himself to become a true sailor.
'Kydd' launches a masterly new writing talent and a thrilling new series.Based on dramatic real events,it is classic storytelling at its very best,rich with action,exceptional characters and a page-turning narrative.
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