FORESTER, C. S.. Death to the French. John Lane the Bodley Head, 1932.

Price: US$41.71 + shipping

Description: Reprint, 1947, in red cloth with black. Some foxing; binding tight; dust jacket worn at edges, with yellowed spine Used - Good. Good hardback in Good price-clipped dust jacket

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Forester. C. S.. Death To The French. A Novel.. John Lane The Bodley Head., London., 1932.

Price: US$230.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition 1932. Some foxing in places, mostly at the beginning and end and to page edges. Publishers printed orange cloth, the spine is slightly faded and marked, cloth lightly marked and rubbed with some very light rubbing to the edges. Still a pretty good copy. The scarce first edition. 308 p.

Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom

C.S.FORESTER.. Death to the French. A novel.. John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1932.

Price: US$320.82 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition - the colonial issue, with that text neatly inkstamped to the copyright page. 8vo. 308pp + [iv] publisher's advertisements. Orange cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. Illustrated with one map. Top edge dust soiled and with some fading to the cloth at the backstrip and upper board. Spine ends gently rubbed and with a minor slant to the binding. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Very good. No dust wrapper. The first edition of this book - colonial edition or otherwise - is now extremely uncommon.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). Death to the French. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1932, 1932.

Price: US$352.90 + shipping

Description: [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 308 [6]. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. With the original orange cloth spine and upper bound in at rear. Edges quite heavily toned, with some occasional spotting, otherwise a clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. A novel set during the Peninsula War in Portugal, 1810, in which a British Green-Jacket trapped behind enemy lines carries on a guerilla campaign against the French occupying forces. The novel is also a key source-book for Bernard Cornwell's 'Sharpe' series, which includes a deliberate reference to Rileman Dodd, the main character, in 'Sharpe's Escape' (2004).

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

FORESTER, C.S.. Death to the French - a novel.. The Bodley Head, London., 1932.

Price: US$449.14 + shipping

Description: First edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 304, [4] adverts. A novel of the Peninsular War.Spine a bit faded. Tail of spine slightly rubbed. Very good. No dustwrapper. Scarce.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom