Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). Lord Hornblower. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1946. First U.K. edition, 8vo (183 x 119mm.) Original cloth (minor soiling), dust-jacket (torn with some loss and creased). Provenance: Dorothy Forester (presentation inscription by the author 'To dear Dorothy, / after a friendship already / twenty years old, which I hope / will go on for ever, with best wishes and love from / C.S. Forester / June 1946'); The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive.

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). Mr Midshipman Hornblower. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First American edition, 8vo (202 x 134mm.) Original cloth (slightly affected by damp, extremities slightly bumped), dust-jacket (torn and tattered with loss to spine). Provenance: Dorothy Forester (signed presentation inscription from the author); The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive.

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). Hornblower and the Atropos. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. First American edition, 8vo (202 x 133mm.) Original cloth (head and foot of spine lightly bumped), dust-jacket (spotted, torn with some loss along top edge, spine faded). Provenance: Dorothy Forester (signed presentation inscription from the author, dated 'July 1953'); The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive.

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1958. First American edition, 8vo (202 x 132mm.) Original cloth (endpapers slightly browned), dust-jacket (minor nicks at folds, some soiling). Provenance: Dorothy Forester (signed presentation inscription from the author, dated 'April 1958'); The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive.

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). Hornblower and the Hotspur. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First American edition, 8vo (203 x 133mm.) Original cloth, dust-jacket (slight scuffing and minor nicks). Provenance: Dorothy Forester (signed presentation inscription from the author); The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive.

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). A Ship of the Line. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1939. 8vo (187 x 112mm.) Contemporary purple half morocco, t.e.g. (spine lightly scuffed). Provenance: C.S. Forester (publisher's presentation copy to the author, specially bound for the author by Tauchnitz, with their presentation slip loosely inserted); The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive.

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). [The Works.] London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1946-1967. 18 vols., the majority first editions, 8vo (118 x 180mm. and larger). Contemporary blue (16), red (1) or green (1) morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, covers with gilt ruled margins, the spines gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (most spines faded, small chips to the head of the spine of one volume). Provenance: C.S. Forester and his second wife Dorothy (presentation copies, specially bound and given to the author or his wife by his publishers Michael Joseph, one with publisher's presentation slip loosely inserted); The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive. Note: a unique part-set of the U.K. edition of Forester's Works, the majority the author's own copies presented to him by his grateful English publisher. The set comprises (First edition, unless otherwise stated): Lord Hornblower, 1946; The Sky and the Forest, 1948; Mr Midshipman Hornblower, 1950; Randall and the River of Time, Feb. 1951, 2nd impression; Lieutenant Hornblower, Feb 1952, 3rd impression; Hornblower and the Atropos, 1953; The Nightmare, 1954, red morocco; The Good Shepherd, Sept 1955, 3rd impression; The Naval War of 1812, 1957; Hornblower in the West Indies, 1958; Hunting the Bismarck, 1959; Hornblower and the Hotspur, 1962, green morocco; The Young Hornblower, 1964; The Hornblower Companion, 1964; Captain Hornblower RN, 1965; Admiral Hornblower, 1966; Hornblower and the Crisis, an unfinished Novel, 1967; Long Before Forty, 1967 (18).

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). - Louis MOUNTBATTEN, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979). A group of four t.l.s. to Forester. London, New York, etc.: 1941-1951. 8pp. in total (various sizes). Including a letter correcting 'technical inaccuracies' in 'The Ship' (4pp.); and a letter concerning the importance of the British naval contribution to the war at sea during the Second World War (2pp.). - And a t.l.s. from Robert Lusty (of publishers Michael Joseph) to C.S. Forester. London: 1950. 2pp. quoting a telegram from Sir Winston Churchill which praises the Hornblower books. Provenance: The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive (5).

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966), in AMERICA. A series of seven typed or roneo'd documents (including two duplicates), 1940-1962. 17pp. in total (266 x 201mm. and larger). Relating to Forester's time in America, including a 2pp. typed notarised curriculum vitae, dated 27 April 1940, signed by 'Cecil Scott Forester'; a 2p. typed notarised affidavit, dated 27 April 1940, signed 'Cecil Scott Forester', confirming his married status, his occupation, his change of name and his financial status. Provenance: The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive (a lot).

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). A series of four a.l.s. to his second wife, Dorothy. London, Bermuda, etc.: [n.d.] 11pp. in total (175 x 133mm. or larger). Provenance: The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive.

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). Five official documents, 1899-1966 (various sizes). Relating to the life of C.S. Forester, including his birth certificate and marriage certificate. - And three letters to or concerning C.S. Forester and a related photograph. Provenance: The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive (9).

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). Lieutenant Hornblower. London: 1954. 8vo (184 x 120mm.) Original glazed paper-covered boards. Provenance: Stephen Troughton-Smith (presentation inscription to the author's nephew, signed by Forester 'To Stephen / with best wishes as / before (but Heaven only / knows why) from / his long suffering uncle / C.S. Forester'; The Earthly Paradise. London: 1954. 8vo (184 x 118mm.) Original glazed paper-covered boards (some creasing to upper cover). Provenance: Stephen Troughton-Smith (presentation inscription to the author's nephew, signed by Forester 'To Stephen / from his uncle / (poor clot) / C.S. Forester / June 1954'. - And four others by Forester, three inscribed to his nephew, the fourth from his nephew's library. Provenance: The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive (6).

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). The Cadet Hornblower… selected by G.P. Griggs. London: Michael Joseph, 1954. Vols. 1 & 2 only (of 4), 8vo (182 x 122mm.) Frontispieces printed in blue, yellow and black, occasional uncoloured illustrations. Original wrappers (somewhat soiled, backstrips creased and torn with slight loss). Note: uncorrected proof copies. - And ten others, by or relating to C.S. Forester. Provenance: The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive (11).

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). [The Works… Greenwich Edition.] London: Michael Joseph, 1951-1956. 19 vols., 8vo (185 x 119mm.) Original blue or red cloth (head and foot of spines occasionally bumped), dust-jackets (some tears, a few with loss). Provenance: Dorothy Forester (16 vols. with presentation inscriptions signed by Forester); The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive. Note: a unique part-set of the Greenwich Edition of the works of C.S. Forester (19).

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). The Good Shepherd. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. First American edition, 8vo (202 x 135mm.) (Occasional light soiling.) Original cloth (soiled, head and foot of spine slightly bumped), dust-jacket (torn and creased with minor loss). Provenance: Dorothy Forester (signed presentation inscription from the author, dated 'March 7th 1955'); The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive. - And four others by Forester, all signed first editions, comprising: The Bedchamber Mystery, 1944; The Sky and the Forest, 1948, no dust-jacket; Randall and the River of Time, 1950; The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck, 1959 (5).

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). [The Works.] Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1953-1970. 11 vols., all first American editions, 8vo (195 x 124mm. and larger). Occasional illustrations. Contemporary morocco, the spines gilt in six compartments, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, t.e.g. (a few spines slightly faded, one faded to brown). Provenance: C.S. Forester and his second wife Dorothy (presentation copies, specially bound and given to the author or his wife by his publishers Little, Brown and Co., one with publisher's presentation slip loosely inserted); The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive. Note: a unique part-set of the American edition of Forester's Works, the majority the author's own copies presented to him by his grateful American publisher. The set comprises: Hornblower and the Atropos, 1953; The Nightmare, 1954; Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies, 1958; The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck, 1959; Young Hornblower, three complete novels, [n.d. but circa 1960. ?First U.S. edition thus]; Hornblower and the Hotspur, 1962; Fatal Fascination by Nigel Balchin, C.S. Forester, [et al], 1964; Hornblower during the Crisis, 1967; Long Before Forty, 1967; The Man in the Yellow Raft, 1969; Gold from Crete, 1970 (11).

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). - HAMMERSLEY & CO. (manufacturers). A gilt-highlighted bone china mug with scroll handle (104mm. high). Hand-painted in polychrome with opposing vignette scenes of a ship and Hornblower flanking gilt text 'To / C.S. Forester / Hornblower's Companion', green printed mark to base. Provenance: The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive.

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). - Lotte MEITNER-GRAF (1898-1973, photographer). A mounted half-length portrait photograph by Meitner-Graf of C.S. Forester. London: [no date]. (355 x 255mm. overall). Signed by the photographer on the mount. - And four other related photographs (including three portraits). Provenance: The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive (5).

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). - Cynthia DRUMMOND. A brown patinated cast bronze portrait of C.S. Forester. [n.d.] (500mm. high). Cast signature to base. (Lacking part of spectacles). Provenance: The Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive.