Author: C. S. Forester
Title: Hornblower in the West Indies
Description: London, Michael Joseph , 1958. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition and impression of the last volume in C. S. Forester's popular Hornblower series, in an excellent and unclipped dust wrapper. A first edition, first impression copy of Hornblower in the West Indies, one of C. S. Forester's series following the adventures of Horatio Hornblower, a fictional Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars. A very bright example of this work. The Hornblower series consists of twelve novels, of which one unfinished, and five short stories published between 1937 and 1967. Hornblower in the West Indies (1958) is the last novel in the series and the ninth published. C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, lived in the UK and died in California, USA in 1966 (aged 66). He was an English novelist known for his writings on naval warfare.With the unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only and a faint fading to the spine. With a small bookplate to the front pastedown, otherwise fine. The dust wrapper is excellent and unclipped, with only minor shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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