Rifleman Dodd and The Gun: Two Novels of the Peninsular Wars by Forester, C. S - 1942

Reader's Club, 1942. HARDCOVER. Dust jacket, now in a clear plastic archival cover, has a sunned spine and is edge worn with several half-inch tears and a few smaller ones. Boards are a little foxed, with a water stain along the top edge. Page ends are lightly soiled. Text is unmarked. Strong binding. NOT ex-library.

NY: Press of the Readers Club , 1942. dj w/lite w/lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; owner's plate; lite toning of end papers; 311 Clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8 Vo.

The press of the Readers club, 1942. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The press of the Readers club, 1942. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1943. 2nd (1st trade) . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Doubrava, Jan (dj). 340pp.; HB red w/blk.; slight rub w/lt.sun on edges; bookplate; clean,tight pgs. DJ blk.w/yellow-pic.cover; rubbed w/ chips&tears on edges&corners; tape reinforce,tp.&bttm.edges; spine sunned som lt.soil. --preceded by a mail-order bomc w/o color jacket. 'The Gun' is a reprint of a scarce 1933 ed. "To quote Carl Van Doren, these are "a pair of soldier novels to stand worthily beside Forester's sailor trilogy Captain Horatio Hornblower.

The Press of the Readers Club, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First American printing of Rifleman Dodd and reprinting of The Gun, near fine cloth hardcover with blue illustration to cover and blue and red to spine shows a name at top of front endpaper and just a touch of bumping at corners, else tight and clean, in a very good dust jacket (price at both inner flaps) that shows some edgewear that includes wrinkling at bottom of rear panel and closed tears. 311 pages with foreword by Carl Van Doren. Still a pleasing copy in jacket of this duo from the noted author of Hornblower and other works that makes up an installment in the Readers Club line of reprints intended to bring attention to work unnecessarily neglected.

New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1944. 1st. Hardcover. First edition thus. 12mo. 340pp. Contains two novels of the peninsular campaigns. Minor wear to board edges; decorative owner bookplate else fine in very good dust jacket (corners clipped; wear to extremities; age toning to rear cover; light fading to spine). All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

New York: The Press of the Readers Club, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($1.50), rubbed and bumped at the top edge. Grey cloth with blue ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain, clean internally. Two of Forester's historical war novels collected in one volume.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1943. Cloth. Good+/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 340 pages. Two novels of the Peninsular Campaigns against Napoleon. A pair of soldier novels to stand worthily beside Forester's sailor trilogy "Captain Horatio Hornblower". Red boards with light foxing on pages. Dust jacket is stuck to the book, soiled and torn with pieces missing on the spine. Dust jacket has been trimed on the top and bottom edges by about 1/4 inch each edge so that it is smaller than the book. I can send a photo if desired.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally toned, rubbed at the edges and with shallow chips at the corners. Red cloth with red ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Two of Forester's historical war novels collected in one volume.