Flying Colours
by Forester, C.S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 10mo; G/G-; black/green pictorial spine with ivory text; first edition; dust jacket has moderate shelf wear; rubbed joints; rear shows slight age toning to edges; some general wear to head and tail edges; dj flaps adhered to pastedowns; cloth exterior has some sunning; sturdy boards; textblock exterior edges have modestly age toned; ex-library stamps to endpapers; minor pencil to rear endpapers; tail fore corner to p 294 missing; ex-library stamp to pp 1 and 294; text pages unmarked; pp 294. 1346035. FP New Rockville Stock.
Synopsis
Flying Colours is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C.S. Forester, originally published 1938 as the third in the series, but now eighth by internal chronology. It describes the adventures of Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England.
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Details
- Seller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1346035
- Title
- Flying Colours
- Author
- Forester, C.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1939
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Rockville, Maryland
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