Flying Colours including A Ship of the Line

by C S. Forester

$850 · Offered by Royal Books

Signed

London: Michael Joseph, 1938. First UK Edition, and the correct first of Flying Colors, preceding the single volume publication. SIGNED by the author on a special Book Society bookplate designed by Rex Whistler. The third Hornblower novel published, and the eighth in series chronology, published together with the second. Along with The Happy Return, the three form the basis for the 1951 film Captain Horatio

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