Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First paperback edition of this classic Cornwell Sharpe book. Overall very good condition, still tight no loose pages general handling and creasing to spine and covers. Text block clean, moderate tanning to top edge. Overall very good. Do not confuse this with listings for the later Harper Collins reprints that state 1983 - this is a true first edition paperback copy. This Copy Is Not Exlib, Not Priced Clipped And Has No Inscriptions. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A solid copy of this increasingly uncommon first edition First printing Fontana paperback book, by a collectible author.
Seller: Durdles Books (IOBA) (PBFA), Birmingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$497.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG+/F. 8vo. original red boards gilt (spotting and offsetting to leaf edges and endpapers, prev. owner's name to upper pastedown, faint slant to spine, otherwise clean & bright) in dustwrapper priced £8.50 net (a trifle toned); pp. 320 (last blank), with a map. A very good copy. The fourth novel in the Sharpe series, but fourteenth chronologically. The scarcest novel in the sequence, allegedly limited to 500 copies.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Price: US$545.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition / First Print (1 of 500 copies). Hardback copy in red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket (£8.50 net) in new removable protective clear sleeve. 319pp. Signed by author on official bookplate loosely inserted in book. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light crease to bottom corner of page 319 and rear endpaper. (49/4)
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$663.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG+/F-. 8vo. original red boards gilt (new endpapers, some marks to leaf edges, a little neat restoration to hinges, else clean and bright throughout) in dustwrapper (edges a trifle rubbed); pp. 320 (last blank), with a map. A near fine copy. Flatsigned to title page 'Bernard Cornwell'. The fourth novel in the Sharpe series, but fourteenth chronologically. The scarcest novel in the sequence, allegedly limited to 500 copies.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe's Sword - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Collins, London, 1983.
Price: US$705.47 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HARDBACK - A near fine book, bound in the publisher's red cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine. There is light pushing to the spine tips, but free of any bumping to the books corners. Internally, there is very light soiling to the top page block, but with a very clean inner text. Boldly signed by the author to the title page. No previous owner names or inscriptions inset. The dust wrapper is in very good condition with an area of darkening to the rear panel. The rest of the dust wrapper is very clean indeed with the publisher's printed price of £8.50.net present to the base of the front flap.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Bernard Cornwall. Sharpe's Sword. Collins, London UK, 1983.
Price: US$763.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 500 copies published. Author of the Sharpe's Eagle, Sharpe's Gold, and Sharpe's Company. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Very clean boards and end papers. The contents are bright. Lightly browned first pages. The dust jacket is bright. Minimal wear to the jacket. Lightly browned with spotting on the folds. Pink stain on the internal spine.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Sword. London Collins 1983, 1983.
Price: US$833.74 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing, published by Collins in 1983. A very good book without inscriptions. Spotting to the endpapers and a little to the edges. Small blue spot to the foot of the front board (also to inside of DJ). In a very good unclipped wrapper with spotting to the end flaps. The rarest of the series.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
CORNWELL BERNARD. Sharpes Sword. Collins, London, 1983.
Price: US$1019.73 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. A near fine copy in like D/W with some tanning to the edges of the back panel. Signed by the Author on the title page and by Sean Bean (the actor who played "Sharpe" in the ITV series of the same name) on the half-title. Laid in is the ticket for the signing event attended by Sean Bean held at Bramhall Lane (Sheffield United FC) on November 14, 2009.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.