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Buy this book on-line FORESTER**, C[ecil] S[cott]: : TO THE INDIES. [A Historical novel.]US.NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (circa 1940.) ISBN No ISBN.
US,landscape 18mo p/back,1st edn thus.[US title of the UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn of 'The Earthly Paradise',published (London) Michael Joseph (London),1940.This US p/bk edn,by arrangement with US publisher, Little,Brown and Company Inc.,Boston,circa 1940.] VG+.No owner inscrptn,no printed price.Bright,clean,glossy paper covers with thumbnail b/w photograph of original US,HB+dw/dj,1st edn illustrated front cover with red and b/w white lettering,a grey spine with red lettered author+title, white number 709 to foot of same.Spine/ backstrip wrinkled due to drying and/or shrinking of its glue used in that particular binding process,rear panel white background with red internal border with white stars edged to a lemon yellow panel with black lettered synopsis of the non-Horatio Hornblower novel within it. Insides of both covers with text: front with note of the publishing organisation and its purpose,rear with a list of already published numbered titles in same series from No. 695 - Ruth McKenney: The McKenneys Carry On'. to No. 734 - Walter Karig: 'Lower Than Angels.' Top+ fore- edges inevitably aged/toned - as usual/ normal - but without other blemish; contents generally bright and clean with minimal page-edge toning,tight,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages corners - could be unread,apart from my own collation.US,landscape 18mo p/back, 1st edn thus,3-319pp [paginated] includes 24 chapters,and to the rear as last pages - a note about the author; plus [unpaginated] title page.
A special overseas edition for the Armed Forces (US).Distributed by the Special Services Division,A.S.F.,for the Army,and by the Bureau of Naval Personnel for the Navy.US Government property.Not for sale. Published by Editions for the Armed Services,Inc. a non-profit organisation established by the Council on Books in Wartime.
An historical maritime novel of Christopher Columbus's 3rd voyage set in 1497 and adventures and events that befell it.
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