[Rarebooks] First HORNBLOWER book, first edition in dust jacket, signed by C.S. Forester

[Bob Petrilla]

 Forester, Cecil Scott (nee Cecil Louis Troughton Smith). THE HAPPY RETURN
[signed by Forester].  London: Michael Joseph, (1937). First Edition.
287pp. Bound in green cloth, silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 7.5"
x 5" Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket.
The first Hornblower book. Signed on the half-title: "C.S. Forester."
[Mark Wilden bibliography, 25a]    $1,100.00


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