Lot 89
£2,520
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
comprising a full set of the Aubrey/Maturin novels (and several others):
Master and Commander. 1970 [first British edition];
Post Captain. 1972;
H.M.S. Surprise. 1973;
The Mauritius Command. 1977;
Desolation Island. 1978;
The Fortune of War. 1979;
The Surgeon's Mate. 1980;
The Ionian Mission. 1981;
Treason's Harbour. 1983;
The Far Side of the World. 1984;
The Reverse of the Medal. 1986;
The Letter of Marque. 1988;
The Thirteen Gun Salute. 1989;
The Nutmeg of Consolation. 1991;
Clarissa Oaks. 1992;
The Wine-Dark Sea. 1993;
The Commodore. 1994;
The Yellow Admiral. 1997;
The Hundred Days, 1998;
Blue at the Mizzen. 1999;
all first editions [Master & Commander first British edition, see footnote], dustwrappers, none price clipped, all protected in clear plastic jackets, slight wear to dustwrappers of Master and Commander, Post Captain and H.M.S. Surprise;
The Unknown Shore. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First edition, dust-jacket price clipped and rubbed;
Collected Short Stories, 1994, dustwrapper;
The Frozen Flame. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. First edition, original red cloth, no dustwrapper, lacks front free endpaper, small ink note to front endpaper;
Men of War. New York. New York, 1995, first American edition, dustwrapper;
Tolstoy, Nikolai. Patrick O'Brian, the Making of a Novelist. 2004, dustwrapper;
Grossman, A.C and L.C. Thomas. Lobscouse & Spotted Dog.. Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels. New York, 1997, dustwrapper;
King, Dean. Patrick O'Brian, a life revealed. New York, 2000, dustwrapper;
Cunningham, A.E. Patrick O'Brian. Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography. 1994;
Cunningham, A.E. Patrick O'Brian: a bibliography of first printings and first British printings. Thrommett Books, York, 1986, wrappers;
Book & Magazine Collector. Dec. 2003 issue, featuring 'A Collector's Guide to the Books of Patrick O'Brian', wrappers
Note: A full set of the Aubrey/Maturin novels with the exception of the posthumously published The Final, Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (2004) plus several other volumes. Master and Commander was the only novel in the series which was first published in America [by J.B. Lippincott].