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C.S. Forester. The Peacemaker. William Heinemann, 1934.
Price: US$66.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1934. First Edition. 341 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to rear hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Small tear in top of spine. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Forester C S.. The PEACEMAKER. William Heinemann, London, 1934.
Price: US$115.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Scarce Proof Copy without inscriptions. No tears and issued without Jacket in Green covers with Black Lettering.
Seller: Surprise Books PBFA, Stroud Glos, United Kingdom
FORESTER, C. S.. The Peacemaker. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1934.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Advance Review Copy in original printed wrappers. Uncommon format for this early Forester title. Very Good in wrappers, some foxing to page edges.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. [i-viii] 1-341 [342-344, blank], original green boards, spine stamped in gold. One of the major SF novels of the 1930's. "A bitterly ironic story about an ineffectual schoolmaster whose mathematical genius leads him to construct a machine which will demagnetize iron at a distance. He is led by unfortunate circumstance to use the machine in a hopeless attempt to blackmail England into initiating a program of disarmament." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-38. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-19; (1981) 2-28; (1987) 2-32; and (2004) II-413. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 65. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 305. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 46. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 259. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 75. Reginald 05518. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a vertical crease and age darkening to the spine panel, slight wear at spine ends. An exceptional copy. (30753)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.