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Sharpe's Devil: Napoleon and South America, 1820-1821
by Cornwell, Bernard
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/VG+/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0007235178
- ISBN 13
- 9780007235179
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 2nd. Stated.* Date of Publication: 1992* Publisher: Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Light reading creases to spine, not to hinge. Seems lightly-used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: One page b/w line drawn map at front.* Pages: 314 pp. text. iv pp. historical notes & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Five years after the battle of Waterloo, Sharpe?s peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands ? a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth. So it is that the reluctant Sharpe, along with Patrick Harper, find themselves bound for Chile via St. Helena, where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emporer Napoleon. Convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse, neither man can imagine the dangers that await them in Chile.* This is a FINE text copy of the 1st./2nd. with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG+.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2989
- Title
- Sharpe's Devil: Napoleon and South America, 1820-1821
- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 2nd . Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0007235178
- ISBN 13
- 9780007235179
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- London UK 329
- Date Published
- 1992-01-01
- Size
- 17.5 x 10.9 x 2.8 cm
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