FORESTER, C.S.
The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc , 1956.
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First Edition of C.S. Forester's The Age of Fighting Sail; finely bound
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).
The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812.
$475.00
Out of Stock
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