HORNBLOWER DURING THE CRISIS: AND TWO STORIES: HORNBLOWERS TEMPTATION and THE LAST ENCOUNTER
by Forester, C. S. (pseudonym for Cecil Louis Troughton Smith)
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- Hardcover
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- Inked personal library stamps to paste downs and title page, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear
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About This Item
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1967]. First U. S. edition. Inked personal library stamps to paste downs and title page, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear and crease at the lower right front panel, slight darkening to spine panel. (24749). Octavo, cloth. The posthumously published final Hornblower book which the author was working on upon his death. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24749
- Title
- HORNBLOWER DURING THE CRISIS: AND TWO STORIES: HORNBLOWERS TEMPTATION and THE LAST ENCOUNTER
- Author
- Forester, C. S. (pseudonym for Cecil Louis Troughton Smith)
- Book Condition
- Used - Inked personal library stamps to paste downs and title page, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U. S. edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Toronto
- Date Published
- [1967]
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction . Film Source
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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