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THE AFRICAN QUEEN
by Forester, C.S
- Used
- Condition
- Very good plus in near-fine jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. Very good plus in near-fine jacket.. First US edition of this classic WWI adventure story (with a dash of romance), following a skipper and missionary's housekeeper as they plot to destroy a German gunboat - adapted into a Hollywood film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. Far from the tall ships of his celebrated Horatio Hornblower series, C. S. Forester opted for a 20th-century riverboat adventure in THE AFRICAN QUEEN. The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS called the novel "one of the best stories in many a day," noting that, despite the odds stacked against the struggling protagonist Rose, "never for a moment does the reader question her hopes of victory" (76). It was a role played to perfection by Katharine Hepburn in the 1951 film adaptation, and earned her an Academy Award nomination. THE AFRICAN QUEEN appears on numerous American Film Institute best-of lists, and Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart together top their list of greatest US screen legends. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original tan cloth blindstamped with foliage pattern, other elements stamped in green. In original unclipped ($2.00) color pictorial dust jacket. [4], 275, [1] pages. Ownership stamp on front and rear fly leaves; small address sticker of same owner on front and rear pastedowns. Bit of shelfwear to boards. Jacket gently toned, with just a couple faint areas of rubbing.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44778
- Title
- THE AFRICAN QUEEN
- Author
- Forester, C.S
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus in near-fine jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- 20th century,English & British,Books to Film
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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"...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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