The African Queen
by Forester, C. S
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Cloth in DJ; 308pp; DJ price-clipped, slightly edgeworn with minor chipping to spine ends & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good+ condition. Attractive vintage edition of classic tale of high adventure.
Synopsis
The African Queen is the story of a jerry-rigged attack on a German gunboat in Central Africa during the early days of World War I. An important subplot is the love story between the Charlie Allnutt, captain of the small launch named The African Queen, and Rose Sayer, the sister and companion of an Anglican missionary who dies in the first part of the novel. Rose's personality is the driving force of the attack, and the novel. Interestingly, the original UK edition has a happy ending, with the couple surviving to be married, but in the US edition, Allnutt dies during the attack. -
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018162
- Title
- The African Queen
- Author
- Forester, C. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction adventure literature
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.