Easton Press. 2011. Hardcover. Full leather with gilt stamping, all edges gilt, silk endpapers. Small scratch in lower page edge gilding, else as New, clean & tight. .

Synopsis

The African Queen is the story of a jerry-rigged attack on a German gunboat in Central Africa during the early days of World War I. An important subplot is the love story between the Charlie Allnutt, captain of the small launch named The African Queen, and Rose Sayer, the sister and companion of an Anglican missionary who dies in the first part of the novel. Rose's personality is the driving force of the attack, and the novel. Interestingly, the original UK edition has a happy ending, with the couple surviving to be married, but in the US edition, Allnutt dies during the attack. -

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Bookseller: Aardvark Book Depot (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 31408
Title: The African Queen
Author: Forester, C.S
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Publisher: Easton Press
Date Published: 2011

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...