Blue at the MizzenPatrick O'Brian

Published by Harper Collins Publishers, London, 1999. First edition, with a full number string to denote a first impression. Bound in the original publisher's hardcover boards, titled in gilt to the spine. Spine ends with minor bumping, binding otherwise in good order. Internally the block is sound, the pages have light age toning, as is common with this publisher, but generally clean and tight. Jacket unclipped with minor creasing to the edges. Vg overall. 

This is the twentieth book in Patrick O'Brian's highly acclaimed, bestselling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship's doctor, part secret agent. The novel's stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon's hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have -- at last -- set sail on thy