The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812.
by Forester, C.S
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- first
- Condition
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956. First edition of Forester's account of the naval battles of the War of 1812. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. The Hornblower novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include The African Queen (1935; turned into a 1951 film by John Huston) and The Good Shepherd (1955; turned into a 2020 film, Greyhound, adapted by and starring Tom Hanks).
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131804
- Title
- The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812.
- Author
- Forester, C.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- C.S. Forester First Edition, The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812 First Edition
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...