FORESTER, Cecil Scott (1899-1966). The African Queen. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.
Sale 855 - Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection
Mar 19, 2021
10:00AM CT
Online / Chicago
Estimate
$800 -
$1,200
Sold for $1,625
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
FORESTER, Cecil Scott (1899-1966). The African Queen. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.
8vo. Half-title. Original palm-patterned cloth lettered in green (some light wear to spine ends); original pictorial dust jacket (separated along lower joint with 1/2 in. tear to spine panel, some chipping with losses to spine ends and edges, spine panel darkened)
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, the basis for the 1951 film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
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