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Sale 456: Fine Literature - Illustrated & Children's Books - Fine Books in All Fields (#456) 06/16/2011 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 06/16/2011 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #82 The African Queen

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$3,125

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

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Description

Title:

The African Queen

Author:

Forester, C.S.

Place Published:

Boston

Publisher:

Little, Brown

Date Published:

1935

Description:

Light brown cloth embossed with jungle leaf pattern, jacket. First Edition.

Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Marion Wolfsen with best wishes from C.S. Forester 1940." One of Forester's most memorable novels, permanently embedded in our cultural consciousness by the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn.

Condition:

Jacket price-clipped, spine yellowed, light chipping to edges, heavier chipping at spine ends, affecting publisher's name at heel, many short closed tears at edges; volume a touch frayed at spine ends, spine and edges rubbed; very good volume in same jacket.

Item#:

221565

Headline:

The African Queen 1st in dj
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