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1953 Hornblower and the Atropos
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
A first edition, first impression copy of Hornblower and the Atropos, one of C. S. Forester's series following the adventures of Horatio Hornblower, a fictional Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
The Hornblower series consists of twelve novels, of which one unfinished, and five short stories published between 1937 and 1967. Hornblower and the Atropos is the fifth novel in the series and third 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.
Condition
In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. the dust wrapper is unclipped and very smart with only minor shelf wear and a minor chipping to the head of the spine, a slight sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean, only minor spotting to the endpapers, as common.
Very Good Indeed
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