Lord Hornblower
£48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books
First edition
London: Michael Joseph, 1946. Naval Fiction FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.224. Publisher's mid-brown cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Rowland Hilder, priced at 9/6. Some spotting to edges, neat, small ink price '20p' to endpaper corner, jacket edge worn with a few tape pieces applied to reverse side. The Admiral's face was grim as he gave Commodore Hornblower his orders. Hornblower knows he must not fail. Yet
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