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KENT**, ALEXANDER [pseud Douglas Reeman]: : MAN OF WAR

LONDON.WILLIAM HEINEMANN,2003.

ISBN 0434010081.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork,by Geoffrey Husband,illustrated dw/dj, with mauve+red lettering to front panel,and black lettering praise quotes to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of dw/dj's spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents solid, bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-276pp [paginated] includes 17 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,an epigram and 2pp blanks at the rear of book.See also my book ID rja25587 and rja408412 for another couple of SIGNED examples of this same title.                      Antigua,1817,and every harbour and estuary is filled with ghostly ships,the famous and the legendary now redundant in the aftermath of war.In this uneasy peace,Adam Bolitho is fortunate to be offered the seventy-four gun Athena,and as flag captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Bethune once more follows his destiny to the Caribbean.But in these haunted waters where Richard Bolitho and his 'band of brothers' once fought a familiar enemy,the quarry is now a renegade foe who flies no colours and offers no quarter,and whose traffic in human life is sanctioned by flawed treaties and men of influence.And here,when Athena's guns speak,a day of terrible retribution will dawn for the innocent and the damned.                          Want more Alexander KENT titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2 and SIGNED catalogues. Please contact sellelr,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!  N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.   ** 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 US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **  

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.