![FORESTER, C. S. [=Cecil Louis Troughton Smith] Inscribed copies of the first three Hornblower](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/696/1499696.jpg?itok=FCXrZCN8)
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Lot 200
FORESTER, C. S. [=Cecil Louis Troughton Smith] Inscribed copies of the first three Hornblower
novels. Comprises The Happy Return. London: Michael Joseph, (1937). First edition, first issue jacket, with the 7/6 price and the review for The General on the rear panel. Signed and inscribed by C.S. Forester on the title: with a signature, and "To Ingle Barr with every good wish April 1957--twenty years later; the handwriting does not seem to have changed" with a second signature. Publisher's green cloth, the spine tooled in silver, in the dust jacket. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); 287, [1] pp. A clean copy of the jacket, with some edge wear including small losses to the head of the spine, the interior of the jacket foxed, the name "Holly" faintly in ink at the head of the front panel, the cloth clean, minor edge foxing, but a superior example. With the bookplate of Ingle Barr; A Ship of the Line. London: Michael Joseph, (1938). First separate edition, first issue in the blue cloth, the jacket with the 7/6 price. Signed and inscribed by C.S. Forester: a signature on the half-title, and "To Ingle Barr, nineteen years after the first signature, with best wishes from C.S. Forester April 1957" on the title. Publisher's blue cloth, the spine tooled in silver, in the dust jacket. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); 304 pp. [1] p. ads for The Happy Return. A clean copy of the jacket, with some edge wear, the interior of the jacket foxed, the cloth slightly faded at the spine, the name "Holly" faintly in ink at the head of the front panel, minor edge foxing with light foxing to preliminaries, but a superior example in all. With the bookplate of Ingle Barr; and Flying Colours. London: Michael Joseph, (1938). First separate edition, first issue in the red cloth, the jacket price clipped, with the "Book Society Choice" bellyband. Signed and inscribed by C.S. Forester on the half-title: a signature on the half-title, and "To Ingle Barr with the same good wishes. April 1957", with C.S. Forester's signature. Publisher's red cloth, the spine tooled in silver, in the dust jacket. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); 284 pp. [3] pp. ads. A clean copy of the jacket, with some edge wear the interior of the jacket foxed, the name "Holly" faintly in ink at the head of the front panel, the cloth bright, minor edge foxing with light foxing to preliminaries, but a superior example in all. With the bookplate of Ingle Barr..
Attractive copies in the scarce dust-jackets of the first three novels (by chronology of publication) in the author's "Hornblower" sequence, set in the British Navy at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. These are the progenitors to Patrick's O'Brian's superb Aubrey and Maturin sea novels. The second and third novels were initially issued in a combined volume.
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