The Happy Return

by Forester, C S

June, 1808 – and off the Coast of Nicaragua Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands full ... Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to form an alliance against the Spanish colonies with a mad and messianic revolutionary, El Supremo; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and 'to take, sink, burn or destroy' the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad – or face court-martial. And as if that wasn't hard enough, Hornblower must also contend with the charms of an unwanted passenger: Lady Barbara Wellesley ... This is the fifth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.

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London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1937.. First edition. 8vo. 287, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, Book Society bookplate to the front pastedown with an ownership inscription dated the year of publication. Dust jacket worn with losses and residues of old tape repairs, the fore-edge is rather spotted but the… Read more about this item
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London: Michael Joseph, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart first edition of the first novel in the Hornblower series from Forester. First edition. The first novel in the Horatio Hornblower series. Hornblower is in command of the HMS Lydia, with secret orders… Read more about this item
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London: Michael Joseph, 1937. [Naval adventure] FIRST EDITION of the first Horatio Hornblower novel. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.287; [1]. Vintage brown buckram with black morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge brown. A little spotting to fist and final gatherings else contents very clean. Discreet ink name to flyleaf. Binding unmarked. An attractive copy in… Read more about this item
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London: Mermaid Books (Michael Joseph). Good+. 1955. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Softcover. Spine splits, base of spine cover missing, front board slightly creased, front gutter starting, paper starting to tone. ; Green laminated covers. No names or marks inside. ; 192 pages; Hornblower's ship the Lydia visits South America on secret Admiralty orders, only to find… Read more about this item
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