Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Forester, C. S.. The Gun. Little Brown, Boston, MA, USA, 1933.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 296 page novel, map endpapers, a little discolored along the spine
Seller: Stuart W. Wells III, Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$94.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HBDJ, Published August 1933, 1st edition, 1st printing ,minor rub, wear & small mended Tears chips DJ, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, Beige & Blue decorated cloth of cannon, 296 pgds, Interior nice tight clean light wear Fox, 12mo, DJ protected clear Mylar ,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. The Gun. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Damp stain to bottom corner of front cover. Moderate wear and chipping to DJ extremities.
Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.
C.S. Forester. The Gun: A Novel. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1933. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [4],296pp. A few small chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, brief tape repairs to verso, moderate dust-soil, top textblock edge and early leaves rather foxed, corners tapped; nevertheless, a Very Good copy, internally sound.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. The Gun. Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1933.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Nice copy in its first printing published August, 1933. Unmarked, tight and square. Review copy with publishers note to that effect laid in. Map endpapers has small area of offset caused by this note. Beige-tan cloth has two bumped tips but is bright and fresh with blue lettering and drawing of gun on front or top board. Price intact jacket has two one inch creases and moderate wear at head of front fold but no tears, chips or soiling. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. The Gun. Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1933.
Price: US$342.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Nice copy in its first printing published August, 1933. Unmarked, tight and square. Map endpapers. Beige-tan cloth has four sharp tips. Beige-tan cloth has bright blue lettering on spine and stamped drawing of gun on front or top board. Price intact jacket has only faint wear. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
FORESTER, C. S.. The Gun.. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$3180.06 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "John Reed, from C. S. Forester, with very best wishes and thanks, March 1938". This title is scarce inscribed. This work follows the adventures of an eighteen-pounder cannon as it is variously adopted and abandoned by the Spanish army and a group of guerrilleros. It was first published in the UK by The Bodley Head a few months earlier. Octavo. Original light brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in dark blue, cannon motif on front cover in dark blue, map endpapers printed in dark blue on yellow paper. With dust jacket. Spine ends bumped, a few marks on rear cover, edges and endmatter a little foxed; jacket lightly soiled with a few chips and marks, unclipped. A near-fine copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom