[Rarebooks] FS: Forester, Hornblower and the Atropos, inscribed 1st in dust wrapper

[Bob Petrilla]

Forester, Cecil Scott (nee Cecil Louis Troughton Smith). HORNBLOWER AND THE
ATROPOS [signed by Forester]. London: Michael Joseph, (November 1953).
First UK edition. 302pp. Bound in reddish-brown cloth, pictorial dust
jacket. 7.5" x 5" Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket. Original Cloth.
Copyright November, 1953, "second impression before publication." Inscribed
and signed on front free-endpaper: "To Michael / Not in memory of that
night of all nights / but in memory of a first meeting many / years ago,
with the deepest affection from / C.S. Forester." [Mark Wilden
bibliography, 44b. (#036169)        $300.00

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