THE AFRICAN QUEEN(MERMAID BOOKS EDITION)
by C.S. FORESTER
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good /No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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THETFORD, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: MICHAEL JOSEPH. Illustrated laminated card covers(A cross between a hard cover and a paperback. Sometimes called a limpback). Mermaid Books edition. Slight wear on cover edges. Lightly tanned and slighty foxed pages. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Classic novel first published in 1935. Location: LBB1 . Very Good. Hardcover. REPRINT. 1956.
Synopsis
The African Queen is the story of a jerry-rigged attack on a German gunboat in Central Africa during the early days of World War I. An important subplot is the love story between the Charlie Allnutt, captain of the small launch named The African Queen, and Rose Sayer, the sister and companion of an Anglican missionary who dies in the first part of the novel. Rose's personality is the driving force of the attack, and the novel. Interestingly, the original UK edition has a happy ending, with the couple surviving to be married, but in the US edition, Allnutt dies during the attack. -
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Details
- Bookseller
- TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010101
- Title
- THE AFRICAN QUEEN(MERMAID BOOKS EDITION)
- Author
- C.S. FORESTER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- REPRINT
- Publisher
- MICHAEL JOSEPH
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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