PATRICK O'BRIAN. — The Last Pool and Other Stories.

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing) of the author's fourth book (and the first written under his now-familiar pseudonym). 8vo. 216pp. Green cloth lettered in blue at the spine. Some discolouration to the head of the upper board, and a little light spotting to four or five preliminary leaves, and to the top- and fore edges. A very crisp and bright copy in handsome non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, a little spotted internally and at the rear panel, and with a small area of loss from the front panel and spine ends. With a single tiny jagged tear and fairly superficial resulting creasing. Thirteen stories. Scarce. Cunningham A1a., Very Good, Good