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Forester, C.S.. The African Queen. Little Brown, 1935.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 2nd printing. "Published February 1935, Reprinted February 1935". Brown cover, green titles. Stain top front of cover.Top and tail of spine worn, corners bumped. Binding tight, interior clean and unmarked.
Seller: Books Galore & More..., Port Perry, ON, Canada
Forester, C. S.. African Queen. Little Brown, NY, 1935.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First published 1935 then repinted twice. Book shows a little fraying on the corners and spine ends. Light foxing to top of pages. Book is square and tight. Pages are clean. Heavy front and back boards.
Seller: Bob Lakin Books, Chatfield, TX, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S.. The African Queen. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, MA, 1935.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 275pp.; HB brwn.'leaf'pattern w/green; some rub w/lt.wear on edges&corners; sml.hole,bk.hinge; PON; (3) 1"chips,last pg.; sml.sticker,bk.pastedwn.; clean,tight pgs. Adventure story of missionary's sister & cockney engineer using his boat to fight the Germans in Africa during WWI. 1st ed.
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S.. The African Queen. Little, Brown, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$359.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. A VG copy in a fine facsimile dust jacket. Basis for the 1951 film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn and Robert Morley. Only 2,500 copies printed. Scarce.
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
C.S. Forester. The African Queen. Little, Brown and Company, 1935.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition, first printing of Forester's tale of African adventure, basis for the 1951 film of the same name directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935. Binding is lightly shaken with a minor lean, still sound with no cracking. Bump to front corner, shelfwear to extremities. Owner's bookplate to front pastedown, small spot of residue to rear endpaper, else internally clean with a few minor instances of thumb soiling. The unclipped dust jacket shows soiling, a couple closed tears and shelfwear with chipping at the joints and to spine crown. Presents well in archival mylar, scarce with the original jacket.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
C S Forester. The African Queen. Little Brown, 1935.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. No DJ. In archival cover.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. The African Queen. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities; light staining to top edge of page block. Light foxing to pages, chip missing from bottom corner of last page. A lovely copy of the book served as the basis for the movie bearing the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. The African Queen. Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1935.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: Nice copy of author's classic book in its third printing of the first edition done the same month as the first. Tan textured boards with green lettering has moderate wear at head of spine but remarkably well presrved. White endpapers. Unmarked, tight and square. The basis for the excellent film done in 1951 that starred Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn directed by John Huston. Price intact jacket has chip at head of spine extending into back panel. Light edgewear otherwise. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S.. The African Queen. Little Brown, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 275pp. Light brown and green textured boards.Copyright page reads "Published February, 1935"/ Light fraying to the spine edges, prev. owner name, glue remnants on the front pastedown. The text block is bright, unmarked. Price-clipped original pictorial jacket is virtually intact, tape remnants across the upper and lower extremities of the spine and to the foldcovers.in mylar sleeve. A true first Edition book and jacket of this classic romantic adventure tale of opposites attracted as they wend their way down a river in Central Africa on a rickety steam launch. Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
C. S. Forester. The African Queen. Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, first printing (February, 1935). Original brown foliage-pattern embossed cloth stamped in pale green. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; small area of light soiling at top lip of a few pages (mostly ffep and half-title pages, more slightly to title page); small spot of soiling in side-margin of about eight consecutive pages, else interior clean. Dust jacket not price clipped ($2.00); chipped at foot of spine and shallow chipping at head of spine; spine faded, marked and lightly soiled; light surface blemishes; in an archival mylar sleeve. 275 pages.
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
C.S. Forester. The African Queen. Boston, Little Brown, 1935, 1935.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. 1st edition; ex-private library copy -- only a couple of pages with stamping; Good in very nice full facsimilie dust jacket; tan decorated cloth; cloth is bumped on corners, rubbed; edges of text block are foxed with very minor occasional foxing to the pages. No other markings to pages. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. The African Queen. Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American edition, published ( in a diminutive printing ) by Little Brown and Company in 1935. Memorably filmed, of course, by John Huston, wit compelling performances from Hepburn and Bogart. A very attractive copy; book near fine with spotting to the top edge. The dust jacket is very good with a touch of wear to the spine ends and tips. Tear to lower fore corner of front jacket panel. ( wholly contained within the black silhouette of the tree, and only very slightly visible. ) There is faint spotting to the edges of the rear jacket panel ( not present to the book. )
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
C.S. Forester. The African Queen. Little Brown, 1935.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: C.S. Forester. The African Queen. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935. First edition, first printing with "Published February, 1935" on copyright page. Octavo. 275 pages. Publisher's leaf patterned textured cloth with titles on upper board and spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Binding rubbed at extremities, corners and spine ends bumped. Light tape stains and paper lifts on endpapers, pages with occasional spots or unobtrusive patches of foxing. Dust jacket with edge and fold wear, small edge tears and chips, paper losses at head and foot of spine panel, affecting publisher's information at foot, small cellophane tape remnants on verso. Very good. Rare title with dust jacket.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
FORESTER, C. S.. The African Queen.. Little, Brown, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: 275 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. Slightest of rubbing to the top of the spine; else a fine copy in a very near fine jacket with one tiny short tear to the bottom of the front panel.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
FORESTER, C. S.. The African Queen.. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935, 1935.
Price: US$2254.46 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing. Forester's novel, also published in the UK the same year, was adapted into the highly successful film in 1951 starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Octavo. Original brown patterned cloth, spine and front cover lettered in green. With dust jacket. A near-fine copy in the bright dust jacket, with expert tissue reinforcement to extremities.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Forester, C. S.. THE AFRICAN QUEEN. Little, Brown, 1935.
Price: US$2449.22 + shipping
Description: THE AFRICAN QUEEN, Little, Brown, 1935, first American edition, vg in like color pictorial dust-wrapper. Actually quite nice. The endings of this novel are considerably different for the English and American edition. Source book for the 1951 film of the same name.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S. The African Queen.. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, early printing of C.S. Foresterâs beloved African adventure, basis for John Hustonâs 1951 Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by C.S. Forester on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed. âThe cornerstone item in any serious Forester collectionâ (Smiley, 39) and the basis for the classic, 1951 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Bogart won the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994, with the Library of Congress deeming it "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
FORESTER, C.S.. The African Queen. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935, 1935.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Some foxing; very good to fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and a tiny archival mend inside the top of the spine. The American and English editions have alternate endings. In the English edition, the Royal Navy sinks the Konigin Luise, and Rose and Allnutt survive to marry; in the American edition, they fail to sink the ship with the African Queen's torpedo, and Allnutt disappears under the water. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
FORESTER, C. S.. The African Queen.. Little, Brown, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: 275 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Preserved in a custom cloth clamshell box. First American edition. Very slightly bumped at extremities of spine; else very near fine in a jacket which has a faint crease to the length of the backstrip , very near the rear joint. The dust jacket is otherwise brilliant; completely unfaded.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
FORESTER, C.S.. The African Queen. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition ("Published, February, 1935"). Octavo. Original patterned light brown cloth stamped in green. Dust jacket (unclipped; short closed tear; few small chips; eight small tape reinforcements on the verso; spine slightly toned). Very good, an attractive copy. First American edition, with an alternative ending to the first British edition. Provenance: Al Roubicek with his bookplate of the front pastedown.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S.. The African Queen. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. An attractive First Issue dustjacket with light wear to the panels. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight with slight wear to the edges. The pages are clean, with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a sharp clean copy of this true first edition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. The African Queen. Little Brown, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$4250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 275 pages. First American edition, first printing with published February 1935 on copyright page. Basis for the 1951 John Huston movie starring Humphrey Bogart & Katherine Hepburn. The english edition which was also published in 1935, has a happy ending while this edition elliminates the last four chapters and kills off Charlie Allnut. Near fine book with the spine ends & edges very slightly frayed in a near fine dust jacket with the spine a touch tanned. Price clipped. Still a beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. The African Queen. Little, Brown, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$4499.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a first American edition copy, with published February 1935 on copyright page. Spine ends/edges slightly frayed. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Mild foxing. The original jacket is unclipped ($2.00) with very minor edgewear. A tight, square copy with bright jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S.. THE AFRICAN QUEEN. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: First US edition of this classic WWI adventure story (with a dash of romance), following a skipper and missionary's housekeeper as they plot to destroy a German gunboat - adapted into a Hollywood film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. Far from the tall ships of his celebrated Horatio Hornblower series, C. S. Forester opted for a 20th-century riverboat adventure in THE AFRICAN QUEEN. The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS called the novel "one of the best stories in many a day," noting that, despite the odds stacked against the struggling protagonist Rose, "never for a moment does the reader question her hopes of victory" (76). It was a role played to perfection by Katharine Hepburn in the 1951 film adaptation, and earned her an Academy Award nomination. THE AFRICAN QUEEN appears on numerous American Film Institute best-of lists, and Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart together top their list of greatest US screen legends. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original tan cloth blindstamped with foliage pattern, other elements stamped in green. In original unclipped ($2.00) color pictorial dust jacket. [4], 275, [1] pages. Ownership stamp on front and rear fly leaves; small address sticker of same owner on front and rear pastedowns. Bit of shelfwear to boards. Jacket gently toned, with just a couple faint areas of rubbing. Very good plus in near-fine jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S. The African Queen.. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of C.S. Forester's beloved African adventure, basis for John Huston's 1951 Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and Theodore Bikel in his first film role. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by actor Theodore Bikel on the front free endpaper, "African Queen was the first film I had a role in. How does one define the feeling? A classic, starring Bogart & Hepburn, directed by John Houston - I was too young to appreciate the awe of it. (If I had, I might have thought that from there it could only go downhill.) As it was, it became a learning experience. It was a also fun. I was glad that this was for me, a stage actor, the introduction to film. Theodore Bikel." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light expert restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example. âThe cornerstone item in any serious Forester collectionâ (Smiley, 39) and the basis for the classic, 1951 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Bogart won the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994, with the Library of Congress deeming it "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S.. The African Queen. Boston, Little Brown, 1935, 1935.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition; a fine copy in a bright, better than very good DJ with light professional restoration and a couple of small closed tears, not price-clipped.
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S. The African Queen. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. First American Edition. Basis for the classic film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn directed by John Huston in 1951. Very light foxing to page edges. Book Is fresh and clean with no marks except for light rubbing to bottom edges. The unclipped dustjacket is beautiful, virtually as new. A lovely copy of this classic novel. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
FORESTER C.S.. African Queen. , 1935.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: "FORESTER, C.S. The African Queen. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935. Octavo, original beige and green cloth, original dust jacket. $5000.First American edition of Forester's beloved African adventure, basis for John Huston's 1951 Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, in scarce dust jacket."I recommend Forester to every literate I know," Hemingway once said. Born Cecil Smith in Egypt, C.S. Forester grew up in England to become one of its most popular authors with his adventures of Horatio Hornblower and, in The African Queen, an unlikely romance between a Cockney boat pilot and a headstrong missionary that produced one of Hollywood's most legendary films, starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart in his only Oscar-winning role. "The cornerstone item in any serious Forester collection" (Smiley, 39). Published the same year in England with a "happier, if not entirely satisfying ending," this "American first edition stops when the African Queen sinks Forester was fond of ironic stories; the shorter, tragic end [of the first American edition] gives the story a dimension missing from the British edition" (Firsts 14:2, 42, 57). Book fine; some chipping, edge-wear with repair to verso of very good dust jacket. A modern classic in scarce pictorial dust jacket."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S.. African Queen. Little Brown, 1935.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color and has the publisher's printed price present with minor wear. The book is bound in the original publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean, with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
C S Forester. The African Queen. Little Brown, 1935.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy in fine wrapper.The wrapper has the lightest of fade to spine no rubbing with two short closed tears less than 1cm secured with invisible archival tape.a lovely copy of a wrapper that is notoriously fragile. Language: eng
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia