Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe's Siege. Collins, London, 1987.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 319pp. Richard sharpe and the winter campain 1814. The copy is as new.
Seller: WEST WESSEX BOOKS, Taunton, United Kingdom
Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Siege : First printing. Collins, London, United Kingdom, 1987.
Price: US$28.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (£10.95). Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, a hint of fading to spine, minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, slight rubbing to gilt title and the odd small crease/rub to edges. Boards are very good with light crease to spine (book has been read), very minor pushing to corners and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Little spine lean. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. Couple of light scratches to page edges. Pages are tanned (due to quality of paper used). No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Cornwell, Bernard.:. Sharpe's Siege. London: Collins, 1987, 1987.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition.VG/VG. Set in 1814 and is the Eighth book in the series and the Author's favourite! Price clipped but without inscriptions.
Seller: Surprise Books PBFA, Stroud Glos, United Kingdom
Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Seige. Collins, London, 1987.
Price: US$44.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Collins, London, 1987. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+: First edition, first printing; clean and bright boards with sharp corners; no former owner's marks or gift inscriptions; wrapper flap shadow to end papers; clean and tight text block, but with tanning to edges. Dust jacket condition: Very Good+: clean and bright with no tears; but with creasing to spine tips and flap edges; not price clipped (no price indicating export issue).
Seller: M&B Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$49.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG+/VG. 8vo. original green boards gilt (slightly rubbed & marked, leaf edge spotting) in export dustwrapper (rubbed & a little frayed); pp. 320 (last blank), with two maps. A very good copy. The eighth novel in the series, but twentieth chronologically.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Siege. Collins., London, 1987.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition hardcover in dust jacket. Pages starting to brown, publishers flaw has light crimp across rear board, very minor spine lean. Jacket is the export edition with no price, has some light scratching to each panel, minor wear. Very Good/Very Good.
Seller: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada
Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Siege. Collins, London, 1987.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages bright and clean, cracked gutter on page 318 (but page still in tact), spotting on closed edges, boards tidy, dust jacket lightly edge worn with plastic protective wrapper. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$82.90 + shipping
Description: F/F. 8vo. original green boards gilt (paperstock a trifle tanned, tiny spot to FFE) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a trifle rubbed); pp. 320 (last blank), with two maps. A fine copy. The eighth novel in the series, but twentieth chronologically.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Cornwell, Bernard.. Sharpe's Siege SIGNED COPY. Collins, London, 1987.
Price: US$83.37 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Not price clipped £10.95net and without inscriptions or fading to spine. First Printing in protected wrapper.Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign 1814. Author's favourite story to date.Some tanning to pages as usuall. SIGNED bookplate.
Seller: Surprise Books PBFA, Stroud Glos, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.85 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 319pp, 2 maps, orig. cloth gilt. A fine clean copy in a practically fine bright dustwrapper. The eighth novel in the bestselling series.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Cornwell, Bernard. SHARPE'S SIEGE. London: Collins, 1987, London, 1987.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description:
Seller: HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS, Costa Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
CORNWELL BERNARD. Sharpe's Siege. Collins, London, 1987.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. SIGNED COPY. Publisher's olive-green boards with gilt spine lettering. The usual toning to the page block (due to the poor quality of paper used) otherwise a near fine copy in like D/W which is priced £10.95 to the inside flap (as called for) with just a hint of spine fade. Signed by the Author on the title page. ISBN: 0-00-221431-8. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
CORNWELL BERNARD. Sharpe's Siege. Collins, London, 1987.
Price: US$179.57 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Publisher's olive-green boards with gilt spine lettering. A fine copy (with none of the usual toning to the page block) in like D/W with no price to the inside flap (denoting an export copy). Very nice indeed. Signed by the Author on the title page. ISBN: 0-00-221431-8. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$224.47 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FINE 1st edition 1st print volume in Fine, bright clean dustwrapper. There is NO tanning to the page edges of this book, which is extremely unusual. An excellent volume. Very minor rub to rear panel, but really excellent. Clean and strong signature by author.
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$234.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo 319pp., maps, Usual light browning to text block o/w nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
CORNWELL, BERNARD. Sharpe's Siege. Collins, London, 1987.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Though the jacket is not clipped, there is no price, which indicates this was an export volume, most likely to Canada. The pages are toning a bit along the edge. A very nice volume. Near Fine / fine.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
CORNWELL, BERNARD. Sharpe's Siege. Collins, London, 1987.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of the export edition. Identical to the domestic UK edition but without the price on the jacket flap. Pages toning evenly, common with this title. The jacket is not clipped. Signed by the author on the title page. Near Fine / Fine.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$340.00 + shipping
Description: London: Collins, 1987. A gorgeous copy. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. The Dust Jacket is superb. Bright, shiny, and protected by a removable Brodart sleeve. No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. This is the British export edition with unpriced Dust Jacket, generally considered the true first edition. "First published in 1987" is so stated on the copyright page. Bound in the original green boards. Gold lettering on the spine is shiny and perfect, with NO flaking and NO rubbing. Sharp corners. Illustrated with 2 maps of France. Eighth book in the Richard Sharpe series. From the Dust Jacket: "Winter, 1814. Allied forces have established a bridgehead in Napoleon's France, and preparations are afoot for the final assault which will ensure the defeat of the beleaguered Emperor. But Richard Sharpe's future looks as bleak as the January weather. Deprived of his command, he finds himself a catspaw in a game of military intrigue. behind the scenes his oldest and most implacable enemy, Pierre Ducos, is spinning a deadly web.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 319pp.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. [8], 9-319, [1] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £10.95 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with two full-page maps. Signed by the author on the title page. Difficult to find signed in the first British edition (in the priced dust jacket). Sharpe's novelization of the final days of Napoleon's military campaign and its end in France. Toning to the pageblock and a ink mark to the fore-edge, a very slight strain to each gutter.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Cornwell, Bernard. SHARPE'S SIEGE. Collins,, London, 1987.
Price: US$485.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bright, clean, crisp copy. I have not seen a finer example.
Seller: HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS, Costa Mesa, CA, U.S.A.