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Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.272; [8], ads, followed by foldout facsimile review. Publisher's blue cloth trimmed in yellow. Owner bookplate to pastedown, contents clean and fresh, covers are square, spine sunned. Near fine, without jacket. 'An epic in miniature of the Great War at sea.' C.S. Forester was awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for both the Hornblower novels 'A Ship of the Line' and 'Flying Colours'. The Prize was founded in memory of a partner in the publishing house of A. & C. Black Ltd., and is one of the oldest and most prestigious book awards in Britain.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
C. S. Forester. Brown on Resolution. The Bodley Head, London, 1929.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Sound 2nd impression of the first edition in the same year, 1929. Blue cloth boards match the original with mustard yellow titling, clear on front board, and hard to read on the spine, as the blue background has sun-faded to a tone the same lightness as the lettering. The boards are evenly faded, still retaining the blue colour. The book has been re-backed, with original spine laid on. The front hinge has the re-backing cloth showing through in a 2mm wide strip of darker blue, reflecting the original colour of the cloth, The rear hinge has the backing cloth almost not showing. Original end-papers tight in the gutters, the binding has been firmed up nicely. Minor spotting and age darkening to text block edges. Occasional foxing freckles to page edges. Free of ownermarks. 272pp+8pp adverts. No DJ. Size: 8vo
Seller: Book Bungalow, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Forester, C. S.. BROWN ON RESOLUTION. The Bodley Head, London, 1929.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 272 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in contemporary full navy buckram binding. Spine faded, with yellow lettering. Covers protected with a mylar wrapper. Some shelf wear and scuffing to covers, along with bumping to corners and fading to spine. Fading to upper edge and back joint of back board; two light-colored spots at back board. Spine cocked. Previous owner's name at front free endpaper. Some age toning to endpapers; pages clean. Shelved in Case 6. 1357409. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
FORESTER, C.S.. Brown on Resolution.. John Lane The Bodley Head, London., 1929.
Price: US$1223.85 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 272. Eight pages of adverts at rear. A novel of the First World War at sea.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''Mr J.N. Underhill with compliments from C.S. Forester''.Free endpapers tanned. Edges slightly spotted and dusty. Covers faded at the spine and edges. Good in the scarce dustwrapper which is extensively torn, chipped and creased, with the front panel, spine and flaps largely intact. In other words a prime candidate for restoration.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
FORESTER, C.S.. BROWN ON RESOLUTION. Bodley Head, 1929.
Price: US$3220.66 + shipping
Description: First edition. Blue cloth lettered in yellow, in the rare pictorial dustwrapper. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper by Forester, "with compliments from C. S. Forester." A very good copy indeed, slight spotting to fore edges. In a very good dustwrapper, which has a full colour image to the upper panel. There are small nicks to the corners and a hole (1cm x 0.5cm) to the upper spine. No lettering is lost and overall this is a most attractive copy of this very scarce early novel.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom