MUTINY.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,3rd imp. [Complete number line3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's slanted, neat blue ink signature without dedication to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by Geoff Hunt illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.The front inner flap of dw/dj has a couple of accidental diagonal creases.Top+fore-edges considerably bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy.Publisher's sharp-cornered,bright,clean, original,black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,3rd imp,1-376pp [paginated] includes prologue+11 chapters and author's note to rear; plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages,a quotation,and towards the rear,an advert for Limited edn Print offer of the dw/djs' artwork by Geoff Hunt,of this title and the previous three Kydd titles - i.e. 'Kydd','Artemis' and 'Seaflower'.An unread book in exceptional condition.
See also my book ID's rja408512 and rja826318 for UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edns of this title; rja408512 for UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn and rja820818 for UK,12mo p/back,SIGNED,1st edn of this title too. Want more Julian STOCKWIN titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2 and SIGNED catalogues. The 4th of a planned series of 11 titles in this series, from this author,favourably compared to Patrick O'Brien and Alexander Kent,hence the first two books are fast becoming harder to find.
'Mutiny',the fourth book in the acclaimed Thomas Kydd series,continues the magnificient tale of one man's journey from pressed man to Admiral in the Great Age of Sail.
It is 1797 and Kydd is now master's mate on Achilles,a 64-gun ship-of-the-line,returning from the Caribbean to England.But the Mediterranean has been evacuated by the British and Kydd's ship is diverted to Gibraltar to be part of the defences of the fabled Rock.
There,he is reunited with his enigmatic,high-born friend Nicholas Renzi.In an attempt to win the heart of a lady,Kydd volunteers to join his tie-mate and others on a dangerous voyage on the frigate Bacchante.Their mission is to rescue a diplomat fleeing over the Alps in the wake of French victories.In Venice,against the backdrop of the tumultuous last days of La Serissima Republica and Buonaparte's imminent conquest, their chances of success look slim. Kydd finally sets sail for England,longed-for after many years' absence,and finds himself at the centre of one of the most extraordinary events in English history - the Mutiny at the Nore.Ten thousand men, one thousand guns and scores of ships hold the country to ransom,the government is near collapse, the economy on the brink of ruin. And the Dutch fleet at Texel now threatens the very survival of England; should they prevail the country will be lost to the French in hours. In the bloody Battle of Camperdown that ensues, the sailors experience all the horror of a major fleet action. This book is based on dramatic true events that have seldom been written about before and are here brought thrillingly to life.
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