![Item #72350 THE AFRICAN QUEEN; [full leather design binding by Fitterer]. C. S. Forester](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72350.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724186586)
London: William Heinemann, (1935). First edition. Basis for the classic film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Beautifully rebound in full leather with riverboat-on-the-water design, spine lettered in gilt, all edges speckled, and marbled endpapers. Gentle toning to spine otherwise quite fine. Item #72350 More
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![Item #72352 FLYING COLOURS; [first separate edition, signed by Forester]. C. S. Forester](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72352.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752693673)
London: Michael Joseph, (1938). First edition thus: the first standalone edition issued just one day after the more common one combined with SHIP OF THE LINE (the previous book in the series). SIGNED BY FORESTER on the title page. 8vo red cloth boards stamped in silver on spine; 284 pages..... Item #72352 More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1970). First edition, preceding the UK edition. Fine in nice, bright dust jacket lightly soiled on rear panel. Item #30055 More
[London]: Michael Joseph, (1937). First edition. First book in his Hornblower series. Only 12,000 copies printed. SIGNED BY FORESTER on the half-title page. 8vo green cloth boards stamped in silver on spine; 287 pages. Very good with spine mellowed but lettering still bright, light foxing to page edges, and spine..... Item #72351 More
![Item #72446 A SHIP OF THE LINE; [exceedingly scarce first UK edition]. C. S. Forester](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72446.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752682262)
London: Michael Joseph, (1938). First UK edition and the preferred edition, if one follows the flag. Published in the U.S. one month prior by Little, Brown. Precedes the combined edition. The second book in his famed Hornblower series. In the first issue blue-cloth binding and dust jacket with original price..... Item #72446 More
New York: Putnam's Sons, 1929. First U.S. edition. Published in UK as BROWN ON RESOLUTION. Trapped on the most remote island of the Galapagos, Brown finds the odds against him. A precursor to Forester's Hornblower novels of the sea. "SINGLE-HANDED is blood and thunder, but the blood is real and..... Item #40088 More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1931. First U.S. edition. From the novelist best known for his Horatio Hornblower series, the story of a pugilist-poet who foregoes his medical studies only to take them up again on the verge of literary fame. Very good to near fine with few creases..... Item #71779 More