Forester, C. S.. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph, 1937.
Price: US$10.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Forester, C. S.. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1937.
Price: US$16.64 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardback, gilt titles to spine. 287pp. 1st edition 1937. Ex-Boots library copy, in their binding. Binding darkened and marked. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Reading copy only. (p4)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Forester, (C.S.). The Happy Return. Michael Joseph, London, 1937.
Price: US$25.61 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fading and small tear to cloth at the top of the spine. Bumping to corners. Some foxing. Size: Octavo . Category: Fiction; For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Forester, C. S.. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph Ltd., England, 1937.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, no dustjacket, first UK printing, green cloth with silver spine-title, book has a cock to the spine and a minor bump to the top rear corner, mild foxing to the first few pages and on the outer page-edge, the former owner's blind-stamp and an attractive bookplate are present on the front end-papers, the binding is tight and the text is fine
Seller: Mainly Books, Silverdale, PA, U.S.A.
C. S. Forester. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph Ltd, 1937.
Price: US$56.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1937. First Edition. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Ex Libris plate to front free endpaper. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$63.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Green boards with silver lettering to spine are very good with a few small marks, a little pushing/bumping to corners, the odd small bump/rub to edges and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Minor spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Previous owner's name, date and location in pen to front end-paper. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Pages little tanned. Occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
C.S. Forester. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph, 1937.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description:
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
C. S. Forester. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph, London, 1937.
Price: US$76.82 + shipping
Description: A smart first edition of the first novel in the Hornblower series from Forester. First edition. The first novel in the Horatio Hornblower series. Hornblower is in command of the HMS Lydia, with secret orders to sail to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua to supply a local landowner with muskets and powder, allowing him to revolt against the Spanish. Written by Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, an English novelist known for his naval warfare novels set during the Napoleonic Wars under the pen-name of Cecil Scott Forester. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Forester, C.S.. The Happy Return.. Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1937., 1937.
Price: US$79.25 + shipping
Description: 12mo, hardback, 287pp. Good condition in green cloth (general light wear; lower corners bumped; spine very cocked; bookplate attached to front pastedown, with faint offset; owner's name penned and since struck out at ffep; endpapers both bright and lightly foxed; pages age-toned and foxed- foxing concentrated mainly at edges and at front and rear) in fair dustwrapper (general wear and scuff marks; several faint ink stains on back cover and front flap; chipped at edges; 1-2cm tears at or near corners with some associated loss; 7cm tear at front upper edge, with some associated creasing and loss; 5x4cm open tear at head of spine and rear upper RH corner). In protective mylar.
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). The Happy Return. London: Michael Joseph, 1937, 1937.
Price: US$121.63 + shipping
Description: [Naval adventure] FIRST EDITION of the first Horatio Hornblower novel. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.287; [1]. Vintage brown buckram with black morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge brown. A little spotting to fist and final gatherings else contents very clean. Discreet ink name to flyleaf. Binding unmarked. An attractive copy in a pleasing contemporary binding. The first in the popular Hornblower series, in which a young Hornblower is captain of the 36-gun frigate Lydia. He sets his course for Spain and Nicaragua in his ongoing quest to cut Napoleon's lines wherever he crosses them.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Forester, C.S.. The Happy Return (facsimile dw). Michael Joseph, 1937.
Price: US$160.04 + shipping
Description: 1st edition and a vg book in green buckram with silver spine titles, yellow endpapers (one inked name fep) in a VG facsimile dw (Price 7/6)
Seller: Poor Richards Books, Felixstowe, United Kingdom
FORESTER, C.S.. The Happy Return. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1937.
Price: US$224.05 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. 287, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, Book Society bookplate to the front pastedown with an ownership inscription dated the year of publication. Dust jacket worn with losses and residues of old tape repairs, the fore-edge is rather spotted but the book is generally clean and in very good condition. The first of the Hornblower novels.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Forester, C.S.. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph, 1937.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: the jacket is shelf worn, a little marked and there are tears. a small chip at the top of the spine and the front panel. the book has a previous owner's bookplate under the front board. there is some light foxing on the early pages. the binding is excellent. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Forester (C.S.). The Happy Return.. Michael Joseph, 1937.
Price: US$992.22 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 288, crown 8vo, original mid green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, slight lean to spine, edges lightly spotted, dustjacket with a design by Rowland Hilder to front panel, chipping, a D-shaped crack towards head of lower joint-fold, very good. The first Hornblower book.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Forester C. S.. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph (1937), (london), 1937.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth, lettered in silver to the spine. To the half title it is signed by Forester, without inscription. A bit of light staining along the lower few inches of the cover fore edges. There is also some staining at the mid-page fore edges, near the front and rear of the text. Former owner name and date to the front pastedown. Very tight. The dust jacket also shows staining along the fore edge flaps. Chips to the spine ends and corners. Some darkening to the spine. Light soiling and other lesser edge wear. Original price of 7/6 to the lower, front flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1216.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Michael Joseph, 193767. First Editions. 12 volumes, octavo. In the publishers original cloth binding with the original dust jackets. Some spotting to a couple of leaves, a good set. All first editions, first impressions. The Happy Return (1937), no dust jacket; A Ship of the Line (1938), with the original dust jacket; Flying Colours (1938), no dust jacket; The Commodore (1945), with the original dust jacket; Lord Hornblower (1946) with the original dust jacket; Mr Midshipman Hornblower (1950), with the original dust jacket; Lieutenant Hornblower (1952), with the original dust jacket; Horatio Hornblower (1952), with the original dust jacket; Hornblower and the Atropos (1953), original dust jacket, foxed to the page edges, tanned pages throughout; Hornblower in the West Indies (1958) with the original dust jacket; Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962), with the original dust jacket; Hornblower and The Crisis (1967), original dust jacket, foxed to the pages edges. This set includes his unfinished novel Hornblower and The Crisis and a First Edition of the Omnibus Horatio Hornblower. Approximately 7 ½ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine fair to good condition with gilt titles, some bruising to the top and base of spines. Joints good condition. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition staining and spotting to Flying Colours. Page edges good condition some foxing spots, tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition. Paste downs good condition tanned. End papers good condition tanned. Title good condition tanned with some foxing. Pages good condition some light foxing, and a few finger marks. Binding good condition solid. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1937-67 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Forester, C S.. The Happy Return SIGNED COPY. Michael Joseph, London, 1937.
Price: US$1280.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Not proce clipped with original 7'6 net. No inscriptions. First Printing in removable protected wrapper. No tears or pieces missing in VG+ condition. A splendid copy. ! The first Hornblower story. SIGNED Bookplate without dedication enclosed. Very Scarce in this condition and with Signature.
Seller: Surprise Books PBFA, Stroud Glos, United Kingdom
Forester, C. S.. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph, London, 1937.
Price: US$1280.29 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Publisher's green boards with silver lettering to the spine. Yellow end-papers. A dusty top edge and some foxing chiefly to the fore-edge which has crept into the text in places otherwise a bright and clean VG++ copy. The VG++ first issue dustwrapper is priced 7/6 net to the spine and has a Review of the General to the rear panel (as called for) and is complete with a couple of very short closed tears and a slightly toned spine. On the verso of the dustwrapper there are some foxing spots. A very nice copy indeed and becoming hard to find in such attractive condition. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
FORESTER, C. S.. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph, London, 1937.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original green cloth boards, lettered in silver to the spine. 8vo - 287pp. A really lovely copy. The boards are clean, the corners true and the text as new. The bright dust jacket has a few very shallow chips and one closed tear. The red Michael Joseph logo on the spine has faded by half. The book that started it all. Fine / Near Fine.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
C.S. FORESTER. THE HAPPY RETURN aka BEAT TO QUARTERS. Michael Joseph, London England, 1937.
Price: US$2385.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: On offer is a super, autographed copy of the First Edition of the first book in the immortal Horatio Hornblower series: The Happy Return by C.S. Forester, signed on the fep, some light book dealer's pencil notes on another endpaper. Only 12,000 copies were printed of the First Edition thusly, signed, makes for an inordinately scarce title. This a VG copy, lacking the dustjacket, London green, silver gilt, crisp and save for a very slight cocking, very light sunning to the spine it would be near fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc., Cochrane, AB, Canada
FORESTER C S. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph, London, 1937.
Price: US$2496.57 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Publisher's green cloth with silver lettering to the spine. FLAT-SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE. A VG+ copy in a D/W that is VG indeed with some minor chips and tears to extremities (not affecting any lettering), and with the fold of the front flap a trifle worn. Flat-signed copies (as opposed to the more common first editions signed on a book-plate) are exceedingly uncommon. The First Hornblower.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
FORESTER, C. S.. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph, London, 1937.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition of first Hornblower book. 12,000 Copies were printed of the First Edition. Extremely scarce. This is a remarkably bright and pleasing copy. There is a faint vertical crease along the spine. There is a previous owner sigature on the paste-down and a Book Society Book Plate on the ffep. Forester's signature is on the half-title, along with a paste-in bio. Cover art by Rowland Hilder. Very Good / Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
C s Forester. The Happy Return. Michael Joseph, 1937.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London green cloth ,silver lettering. The book has bright lettering ,no inscriptions ,foxing or stains. The wrapper has light soiling on top edge and is fine showing price of 7/6. Language: eng
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Set of the first three Hornblower books in the series, all first editions inscribed by author C.S. Forester: The Happy Return. London: Michael Joseph, (1937). First edition, first issue jacket, with the 7/6 price and the review for The General on the rear panel. Signed and inscribed by C.S. Forester on the title: with a signature, and "To Ingle Barr with every good wish April 1957--twenty years later; the handwriting does not seem to have changed" with a second signature. Publisher's green cloth, the spine tooled in silver, in the dust jacket. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); 287, [1] pp. A clean copy of the jacket, with some edge wear including small losses to the head of the spine, the interior of the jacket foxed, the name "Holly" faintly in ink at the head of the front panel, the cloth clean, minor edge foxing, but a superior example. With the bookplate of Ingle Barr; A Ship of the Line. London: Michael Joseph, (1938). First separate edition, first issue in the blue cloth, the jacket with the 7/6 price. Signed and inscribed by C.S. Forester: a signature on the half-title, and "To Ingle Barr, nineteen years after the first signature, with best wishes from C.S. Forester April 1957" on the title. Publisher's blue cloth, the spine tooled in silver, in the dust jacket. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); 304 pp. [1] p. ads for The Happy Return. A clean copy of the jacket, with some edge wear, the interior of the jacket foxed, the cloth slightly faded at the spine, the name "Holly" faintly in ink at the head of the front panel, minor edge foxing with light foxing to preliminaries, but a superior example in all. With the bookplate of Ingle Barr; and Flying Colours. London: Michael Joseph, (1938). First separate edition, first issue in the red cloth, the jacket price clipped, with the "Book Society Choice" bellyband. Signed and inscribed by C.S. Forester on the half-title: a signature on the half-title, and "To Ingle Barr with the same good wishes. April 1957", with C.S. Forester's signature. Publisher's red cloth, the spine tooled in silver, in the dust jacket. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); 284 pp. [3] pp. ads. A clean copy of the jacket, with some edge wear the interior of the jacket foxed, the name "Holly" faintly in ink at the head of the front panel, the cloth bright, minor edge foxing with light foxing to preliminaries, but a superior example in all. With the bookplate of Ingle Barr. Attractive copies in the scarce dust-jackets of the first three novels (by chronology of publication) in the author's "Hornblower" sequence, set in the British Navy at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. These are the progenitors to Patrick's O'Brian's superb Aubrey and Maturin sea novels. The second and third novels were initially issued in a combined volume. A very rare inscribed set in good jackets.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands