[Rarebooks] FS: Forester, Captain Horatio Hornblower, 3 vols in custom box

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Fri Aug 30 09:06:36 EDT 2013


Forester, Cecil Scott (nee Cecil Louis Troughton Smith). CAPTAIN HORATIO
HORNBLOWER: Beat to Quarters; Ship of the Line; Flying Colours by C.S.
Forester. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1939. First Edition. Three (3)
volumes. pp: (iv), 324; 323; 294; frontispiece illus by N.C. Wyeth in each
volume. Issued without dust jackets. Near fine condition in a somewhat worn
original slipcase--all housed in a folding, green cloth chemise and
matching box with black morocco shelf back, gilt lettering.  9" x 6.25"
Very Good. Original Cloth.
Volume I is inscribed and signed "...with all best wishes, C.S. Forester,
April 1940."  [Mark Wilden Bibliography, 29a]   $400.00

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