C. S. Forester — Brown on Resolution

London, John Lane The Bodley Head , 1946. Cloth. A pleasing copy of this WWI nautical novel from C. S. Forester, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The fourth impression of the second edition. First published in 1929. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Set during the First World War, this novel follows the sole-bodied survivor of a sunken Royal Navy warship, who fights against the might of a German cruiser. This novel has some parallels to Forester's Death to the French, however it was the first of C. S. Forester's novels about the sea. In the original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is smart, with edge wear, heaviest to the spine head and tail. With minor sunning to the wrap and a few marks to the rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with scattered spotting to the fore edge affecting the occasional page. Contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good.