The Nutmeg of Consolation
by Patrick O'Brian
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002234610
- ISBN 13
- 9780002234610
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, 1991 Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth Boards. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Historical seafaring novel, 14th in the Aubrey-Maturin series. 315pp. Gilt lettering to spine. From a private collection. Slight forward lean and minor creasing to spine, small mark to top edges and some sunning to page edges, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. DJ is price-clipped, with slight edge and surface wear, otherwise very good..
Synopsis
The Nutmeg of Consolation is the fourteenth book in the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. Its opening chapter continues directly from the ending of the previous novel in the series, The Thirteen-Gun Salute.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015928
- Title
- The Nutmeg of Consolation
- Author
- Patrick O'Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002234610
- ISBN 13
- 9780002234610
- Publisher
- William Collins Sons & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
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