FORESTER, C. S.
Rare books by C. S. Forester, including first edition, signed first edition, and finely bound copies of The African Queen.
Regularly stocked editions of Forester’s works include The Complete Hornblower and first Omnibus edition.
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FORESTER, C. S. The Gun.Boston : 1933
First US edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "John Reed, from C. S. Forester, with very best wishes and thanks, March 1938". This title is scarce inscribed.
This work follows the adventures of an eighteen-pounder cannon as it is variously adopted and abandoned by the Spanish army and a group of guerri... Learn More -
FORESTER, C. S. The African Queen.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. Forester's novel, also published in the US the same year, was adapted into the highly successful film in 1951 starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Learn More -
FORESTER, C. S. The African Queen.Boston : 1935
First US edition, first printing. Forester's novel, also published in the UK the same year, was adapted into the highly successful film in 1951 starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Learn More -
FORESTER, C. S. Flying Colours.Boston : 1939
First US edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the binder's front blank "To Mr. A. R. W. Robertson gratefully for kindness received in British Guinea, from C. S. Forester." Learn More -
FORESTER, C. S. The Earthly Paradise.London : 1940
First edition, first impression. Forester's "first attempt at biographical fiction... tells the story of Christopher Columbus's third voyage to America, which began on May 30, 1498, and which was personally his most disastrous, the voyage from which he returned in chains... Forester tells this tale of Columbus through the eyes of a strange characte... Learn More -
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FORESTER, C. S. The Captain from Connecticut.London : 1941
First edition, first impression. Learn More -
FORESTER, C. S. Poo-Poo and the Dragons.Boston : 1942
First US edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed in the month of publication by the author on the first blank "Ann Catherine Winter, best wishes from C. S. Forester, 22 August 1942". Poo-Poo and the Dragons was Forester's first children's book, first published in Britain the same year. Learn More -
FORESTER, C. S. The Sky and the Forest.London : 1948
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper "Judith Nelson with best wishes from C. S. Forester." Learn More
