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SHARPE'S ESCAPE:; Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810
by Cornwell, Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0007120133
- ISBN 13
- 9780007120130
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the Author on title page, tall 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting mounted British soldiers (detail from "An Affair of Outposts" by James Princep Beadle), map prelim of "The Bussaco Campaign, Portugal, 1810," blue-gray endpapers, 350, [351] pages. Bernard Cornwell, OBE (born 1944) is a British author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. <br/><br/>SUPERIOR CONDITION: tight, bright, clean boldly SIGNED copy in a "Sharp" dj (unclipped) with traces of edgewear.
Synopsis
Sharpe's Escape is the tenth novel in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, finding the hero embroiled in the British retreat through Portugal in 1810 from the defence of the Ridge at Bussaco to the Lines of Torres Vedras, where the French offensive was successfully halted.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6824
- Title
- SHARPE'S ESCAPE:; Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810
- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0007120133
- ISBN 13
- 9780007120130
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- HPB-EMERALD, Portugal, war, hussars, sabers,
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