The Earthly Paradise. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., [1940].
First edition.
Small octavo. 319, [1, blank] pp. With map printed on front pastedown. Publisher’s full red cloth, spine stamped in silver, dust jacket. Jacket spine chipped at edges, tape marks and small dampstains to verso, a few tears along edges. Book has dampstain at lower front joint, and is skewed. Still, very good.
First edition of this novel about Don Narciso Rich, an enlightened fifteenth-century Spanish nobleman who goes on Columbus’ third voyage.
Best known for The African Queen (1935) and the Hornblower novels, Forester (1899-1966) is one of the most successful English adventure novelists of the twentieth century.
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3090
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150