The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey-Maturin) By Patrick O'Brian

\n\nW W Norton & Co Inc, New York, 1996. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good-, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Boards worn around the edges, spine ends bumped. Jacket protected and unclipped. First American edition with full number string down to '1'. Inner hinge cracked at pp120 and pp149. Outer edges untrimmed, as is the norm for the US editions. One page with a small mark, but good order overall. \n\nLife ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting as a Member of Parliament; he is feuding with his neighbor, a man with strong Navy connections who wants to enclose the common land between their estates; he is on even worse terms with his wife, Sophie, whose mother has ferreted out a most damaging trove of old personar