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Hornblower and the Atropos

by FORESTER C S

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  • Hardcover
  • first
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About This Item

London: Michael Joseph, 1953 (500 gram rate) UNCLIPPED Biro designed DW very clean, minor rubbing to ends of spine and top and bottom edges, light wear to DW joint folds shows as faint white rubbing, corners rubbed at tips, book clean, faint minor foxing to endpapers and fold in DW flaps, cloth slightly worn to bottom edge, 302pp, tidy condition. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Biro. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Synopsis

Hornblower and the Atropos is a 1953 historical novel by C.S. Forester. In this novel, Horatio Hornblower is assigned to the Atropos, the smallest vessel in the English navy that qualifies to be commanded by a post-Captain, as he hunts for treasure in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Bookseller
Fortuna Books NZ (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #
002952
Title
Hornblower and the Atropos
Author
FORESTER C S
Illustrator
Biro
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1953
Keywords
British Modern First Edition Novel Fiction Action Hornblower Napoleon Wellington Sailing First Edition
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MILITARIA Fiction;

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About Fortuna Books

Est 1999 e.v. and specialising in the occult, new age and metaphysics as well as religion and mythology, we also stock general fiction and non-fiction. Our shop which was upstairs in the Olympia Building, accessed via Shand's Emporium, was lost in the 2012 earthquakes, and we are currently mail order only.

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Rubbing
Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
12mo
A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Flap(s)
The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
Edges
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First Edition
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Spine
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