FORESTER C S The African Queen Boston 1935 Signed by Fores

Sale 2175 - Lot 49

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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000

SIGNED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION FORESTER, C. S. The African Queen. 8vo, leaf-patterened brown cloth stamped in green; small unobtrusive bump to top edge of last few leaves; dust jacket, lovely copy with unfaded spine, some professional restoration to a few clean tears on verso, some minor color restoration along spine panel; custom cloth clamshell box with calf gilt spine label. Boston, 1935

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first american edition. signed by forester on half-title. While the American and English editions were published in the same year, their endings differ. In the English edition, the Royal Navy sinks the Konigin Luise, and Rose and Allnutt survive to marry; in the American edition, they fail to sink the ship with the African Queen''s torpedo, and Allnutt disappears beneath the waves. The film version starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn compromised by combining the two endings.