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Collins. London: Collins, 1981  8vo., olive green boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine; complete in the original unclipped pictorial dust jacket (£6.50 net) designed by Anthony Kerins; pp. [vi], 7-266; a near-fine copy, some light vertical creasing along the backstrip boards; mild compression to spine ends, a touch spotted to the upper edge; in the near-fine jacket which is mildly toned, perhaps a tad touched by sun at the backstrip, but with only very light creasing to the tips of the spine and edges of folds; an excellent example.  First edition. This copy double signed by both the author and dust jacket illustrator to the title page, with a doodled sketch of two soldiers to the half title. Loosely inserted in an additional series of three sketches on one small slip of paper, in varying stages of completion. Kerins has inscribed this: "All done, John/ Hope you approve/ All best/ Tony".  The first novel of Corwell's renowned Sharpe series, which sets the…

A defining novel in the Sharpe series, detailing Richard Sharpe's adventures during the Battle of Talavera.