Mr Midshipman Hornblower
by C.S.Forester
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Michael Joseph, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1952. First Edition Thus. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Water staining to top edge of text block. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Synopsis
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (published 1950) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester. Although it may considered as the first episode in the Hornblower saga, it was written as a prequel, the first Hornblower novel, The Happy Return, being published in 1937.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1674661003DPB
- Title
- Mr Midshipman Hornblower
- Author
- C.S.Forester
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Date Published
- 1952
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Acceptable
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- First Edition
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