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ADMIRAL HORNBLOWER IN THE WEST INDIES.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
THE BARBARY PIRATES.
New York: Random House, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. Book club edition. Light tan cloth and dust jacket not priced with "Young Readers Of America" slug at head of front flap, no ads to rear panel. The story of the Barbary Pirates and the fledgling U. S. Navy.
THE CAPTAIN FROM CONNECTICUT.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Octavo, original cream cloth, front and spine stamped in light blue, top edge stained blue, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First edition. Historical novel about a U. S. Frigate during the War of 1812.
COMMODORE HORNBLOWER.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Octavo, dust jacket painting by N. C. Wyeth, cloth. First U. S. edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Published in the U. K. as THE COMMODORE. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
HORNBLOWER AND THE HOTSPUR.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
HORNBLOWER DURING THE CRISIS: AND TWO STORIES: HORNBLOWERS TEMPTATION and THE LAST ENCOUNTER.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1967]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. The posthumously published final Hornblower book which the author was working on upon his death. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
LORD HORNBLOWER.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. Octavo, dust jacket painting by N. C. Wyeth, cloth. First edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
THE PEACEMAKER.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1934]. Octavo. [i-viii] 1-341 [342-344, blank], original green boards, spine stamped in gold. First edition. One of the major SF novels of the 1930's. "A bitterly ironic story about an ineffectual schoolmaster whose mathematical genius leads him to construct a machine which will demagnetize iron at a distance. He is led by unfortunate circumstance to use the machine in a hopeless attempt to blackmail England into initiating a program of disarmament." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-38. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-19; (1981) 2-28; (1987) 2-32; and (2004) II-413. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 65. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 305. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 46. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 259. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 75. Reginald 05518.