Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$546.71 + 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$667.01 + 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$707.50 + 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
CORNWELL BERNARD. Sharpes Sword. Collins, London, 1983.
Price: US$1022.66 + 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