New York: Jacobsen Publishing Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1928). Reprint. Hardcover. NOISBN . [minor shelfwear to bottom edge, bumping to top corners, age-toning to top edge of text block; jacket shows some wear and minor paper loss at corners, short closed tear and associated wrinkling/creasing at bottom of front panel, a couple of tiny edge-tears at top of rear panel]. Reprint of the American (Bobbs-Merrill) edition of this early Forester work, under the "Modern Reprint Library" imprint. It's an adventure tale concerning "Henry Dawkins, Englishman and loafer, of a family of pawnbrokers," and how his involvement with a South American rebel leader ("The Hawk" of the title) earns him a "year of torture digging phosphate on a convict island." He escapes from the prison and returns to a quiet life in an English village, with The Hawk's daughter as his ward. Originally published in England in 1928 as "The Shadow of the Hawk." .

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Bookseller: ReadInk (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 20250
Title: The Daughter of the Hawk
Author: Forester, C.S
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Jacobsen Publishing Company, Inc.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: (c.1928)
Keywords: NOISBN

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Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Shelfwear: Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...