FORESTER, C.S.
The African Queen.
“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument": First Edition of C.S. Forester's The African Queen; finely bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.
$3,500.00
In Stock
Item Number: RRB-150960
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
First edition of C.S. Forester’s beloved African adventure, the basis for John Huston’s 1951 Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. One of only 2500 copies printed. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt in 22 karat gold. Boldly signed by C.S. Forester on a page bound in with an armorial bookplate. Founded over a century ago in 1900, the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. In fine condition.
The African Queen.
$3,500.00
In Stock
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