Author: C. S. Forester
Title: The Happy Return
Description: London, Michael Joseph, 1937. First edition. Cloth. 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 to sail to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua to supply a local landowner with muskets and powder, allowing him to revolt against the Spanish. Written by Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, an English novelist known for his naval warfare novels set during the Napoleonic Wars under the pen-name of Cecil Scott Forester. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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