Commodore Hornblower
by Forester, C S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
A$30.99A$21.69
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 384 pp. (Lacking the "First Edition" designation) Blue cloth over board, title in gilt. Original dust jacket, design by N.C. Wyeth; two significant spine end chips as well as corner tips and repaired front cover tear. Name written in ink on pastedown; shelf wear; discoloration on front board (light). Otherwise a tight, straight copy without markings. ; 8vo .
Synopsis
The Commodore (published 1945) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester. It was published in the United States under the title Commodore Hornblower.
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Details
- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8634
- Title
- Commodore Hornblower
- Author
- Forester, C S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Fiction- Adventure, Fiction - Classic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ships & the Sea; Classics; Fiction: Mysteries/Thrillers & General;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
E Ridge fine Books
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Lake Elsinore, California
About E Ridge fine Books
E Ridge Fine Books (2006) is an independent online bookstore and a member of IOBA. All books are carefully listed providing a description of condition and content
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...