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Hornblower in the West Indies
by C. S. Forester
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Michael Joseph, , 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Biro (wrapper design). Book Blue cloth with gilt titles under matt pictorial jacket. . Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 283 pages. Item Type: Book. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slightly foxed prelims. Jacket is spotted and tanned at spine and flap hinges. Chipped and with closed tears.. Dust Jacket un-clipped. No inscriptions. Illustrator: Biro (wrapper design). Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; . Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 034441. .
Synopsis
Hornblower in the West Indies, or alternately Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies is one of the novels in the series CS Forester wrote about fictional Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower. All the other novels in the series take place during the 1793–1815 wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France. This one takes place when Britain is at peace, May 1821 - October 1823. Hornblower has been promoted Rear-Admiral and has been named in command of the West Indies station, i.e.
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- Bookseller
- H4o Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034441
- Title
- Hornblower in the West Indies
- Author
- C. S. Forester
- Illustrator
- Biro (wrapper design)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- BZDB69 Fiction Fiction; . Hornblower in the West Indies C S Forester
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About H4o Books
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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