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Published by Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1974
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Brian Knight; (illustrator). Later Printing. 320 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Contents are: Preface; Schoolboy; Midshipman; Lieutenant; Master and Commander; Secret Agent; Frigate Captain; Senior Captain; Commodore; Peerage; Rear-Admiral; Admiral; and Admiral of the Fleet; followed by appendices and an index. Book.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1970
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good++ dust jacket. Second printing. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (6.95). No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with 35 maps, drawings, and prints. A "biography" of C. S. Forester's fictional hero, Horatio Hornblower, "one of the greatest seamen in the history of the British Empire." From the Dust Jacket: "Parkinson has written a complete, full-length biography of the famous military hero. complete with notes, index, reproductions of portraits and documents still in the family home in Kent, and appendix tracing the ancestors and descendants of the Admiral from 1692 to the present." Six appendices. Index. Original teal-blue cloth. Second printing. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good++ dust jacket. 8vo. 304pp.