FORESTER, Cecil Scott (1899-1966). The African Queen. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE.
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FORESTER, Cecil Scott (1899-1966). The African Queen. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.
8vo. Half-title. Original palm-patterned cloth lettered in green (slight rubbing to spine ends and corners); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (light dampstain to rear panel, a few tiny chips, spine panel slightly browned).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Published February, 1935" on the copyright page, one of only 2,500 copies of the first American edition printed. Forester's novel was the basis for the 1951 film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
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