C. S. FORESTER. — The Gun. A novel.

John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 290pp + [vi] publisher's advertisements at the rear. Purple cloth lettered in orange at the spine and upper board and with the publisher's quite vibrate orange top edge stain. Map-illustrated endpapers. The backstrip cloth lightly faded and with a narrow vertical strip of further light fading to the upper board. Place-marker creases to half-a-dozen leaf corners, one of which also exhibits a little further creasing. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown alongside the neatly inked signature of the same owner and his contemporary date. A very good copy. Laid-in is the front panel (only) of the highly fugitive dust wrapper., Very Good, Poor