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Price: US$250.24 + 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
FORESTER, C.S.. Brown on Resolution.. John Lane The Bodley Head, London., 1929.
Price: US$1219.10 + 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