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Lot 268

O'BRIAN, PATRICK. 1914-2000.
5 early titles:
1. The Last Pool and Other Stories. London: Secker & Warburg, 1950.

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
New York

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O'BRIAN, PATRICK. 1914-2000.

5 early titles:
1. The Last Pool and Other Stories. London: Secker & Warburg, 1950.
Publisher's green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Minor wear to jacket, otherwise fine.
2. Three Bear Witness. London: Secker & Warburg, 1952. Publisher's green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Slight toning to jacket.
3. The Frozen Flame. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953.
Publisher's red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Jacket slightly sunned and soiled, minor spotting.
4. Lying in the Sun and Other Stories. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. Signed.
Publisher's ochre cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Jacket soiled, spine slightly sunned.
5. Richard Temple. London: MacMillan & Co., 1962.
Publisher's dark green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Wear to edges of jacket. Signed.

Early post-war works of O'Brian, two of them signed by the author, from the period before the success of Master and Commander and the other Aubrey-Maturin titles.

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