The African Queen.

£350 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Inscribed by the author on the title page “Hilda Vaughan from C.S. Forester”. Hilda, herself a writer, was also married to Charles Morgan, one of the stars of the literary world of the mid 20th Century: she was evacuated, with their son, to California, where she befriended Forester.

• Year: 1940

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