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1950 The African Queen
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Description
Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The 1950 'cheap edition' of this novel, which was first published in 1936.
In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.
Forester's novel, set in WWI East Africa, follows a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by an English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river to attack a German gun-boat.
The novel was adapted into a 1951 motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of fading to back strip, with bumping to spine head and tail. Light spotting to fore edge of text block. Dust wrapper bright, with back strip lightly age toned. Losses to back strip head and tail, with small loss to head of front wrap, and closed tear to tail of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Very Good Indeed
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