Description: Published: 1939 Michael JosephSize: 7.5" by 5.5" Pagination: 9-866ppThe scarce first edition thus of the first three works to be published in C. S. Forester's popular Hornblower novels.Publishers' Original BindingThe scarce first edition thus, first printing, of the first collected volume of these Hornblower novels.Present within this volume are the first three novels written in C. S. Forester's series about Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower, set during the Napoleonic war; 'The Happy Return' (1937), 'A Ship of the Line' (1938), and 'Flying Colours' (1938).Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, known by his pen name Cecil Scott 'C. S.' Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the twelve book Hornblower novels.With a contemporary owner's inscription to front free end paper.The book bears the signs of age, much like its past readers, resulting in a worn cover and subtle markings on a few pages.
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Binding: Hardcover
Artist: C.S. Forester
Album Name: Captain Hornblower R.N.
Publication Name: N/A
Book Title: Captain Hornblower R.N.
Release Title: Captain Hornblower R.N.
Title: Captain Hornblower R.N.
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1939
Type: Hardcover
EAN: N/A
Format: books
Unit Type: lb
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: C.S. Forester
Region: Great Britain
Topic: Historical
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom