This is the 1939 Original Printing of the 3-volume Boxed Edition of CAPTAIN HORATION HORNBLOWER, by C. S. Forester, who has presented this set "To - Commodore Bill Marshall, Best wishes for a happy birthday and Many of them from father and son. C. S. Forester - We will always think of you as the "Pineapple King of the U.S. Navy"-, dated Feb. 15, 1945, illustrated with pen & ink drawings by N. C. Wyeth and published in uniform octavos measuring 5.5" x 8.25 which include the following individual titles: I - Beat to Quarters; II - Ship of the Line; and III - Flying Colours containing 324, 323 & 294 pp. respectively and each wrapped in color charts and bound in gray-green cloth titled in gilt on black panels on the spine.

Note: I have never in all my years seen other than plain glassine dust jackets on the volumes in this boxed edition. Were the chart (note the one photo of the verso of the jacket showing both rubberstamp and hand notations) dust jackets especially designed/created for presentation copies, and is this an authentic presentation by the author/son. We makes NO Guarantees other than that you are bidding on an original boxed edition of Cpt. Hornblower's Fictional Naval actions.

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