The African Queen
de C. S. Forester
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- Librería
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, first printing (February, 1935). Original brown foliage-pattern embossed cloth stamped in pale green. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; small area of light soiling at top lip of a few pages (mostly ffep and half-title pages, more slightly to title page); small spot of soiling in side-margin of about eight consecutive pages, else interior clean. Dust jacket not price clipped ($2.00); chipped at foot of spine and shallow chipping at head of spine; spine faded, marked and lightly soiled; light surface blemishes; in an archival mylar sleeve. 275 pages.
Sinopsis
The African Queen is the story of a jerry-rigged attack on a German gunboat in Central Africa during the early days of World War I. An important subplot is the love story between the Charlie Allnutt, captain of the small launch named The African Queen, and Rose Sayer, the sister and companion of an Anglican missionary who dies in the first part of the novel. Rose's personality is the driving force of the attack, and the novel. Interestingly, the original UK edition has a happy ending, with the couple surviving to be married, but in the US edition, Allnutt dies during the attack. -
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Detalles
- Librería
- Boyd Used & Rare Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 014828
- Título
- The African Queen
- Autor
- C. S. Forester
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1935
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- books into film, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, John Huston,
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...