C.S. Forester - Collection of 16 C.S. Forester novels (incl. Horatio Hornblower series) - 1936

Collection of 16 C.S. Forester novels, including the entire Horatio Hornblower novel series in original bindings or covered through omnibuses:

1 "Mr Midshipman Hornblower" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph, London - 1950 first UK edition - 15cmx13cm

2 "FLying Colours" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph, London - 1938 first UK edition - 15cmx13cm

3 "Lieutenant Hornblower" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph, London - 1952 first UK edition - 15cmx13cm

4 "Captain Horatio Hornblower" by C.S. Forester and ill. by N.C. Wyeth - Sun Dial Press, NY - 1944 first thus edition ( contains: beat to quaters, ship of the line, flying colours) - 18cmx15cm - with dustwrapper

5 "Admiral Hornblower" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph - 1966 first thus UK edition - contains flying colours, the commodore, lord hornblower, hornblower in the west indies - 18cmx15cm - with dustwrapper

6 "Flying Colours including a ship of the line" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph, London - 1938 first thus edition - 15cmx13cm

7 "The Captain from Connecticut" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph, London - 1941 first UK edition -15cmx13cm

8 "Horatio Hornblower: Commodore and Lord Hornblower" by C.S. Forester - 1952 first thus edition - 15cmx13cm - with fragments of dj laid in

9 "The General" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph, London - 1936 first UK edition - 15cmx13cm

10 "Randall and the River of Time" by C.s. Forester - Michael Joseph, London - 1951 first UK edition - 15cmx13cm -with dustwrapper

11 "Hornblower in the West Indies" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph, London - 1958 first UK edition - with dustwrapper - 15cmx13cm

12 "Hornblower and the Atropos" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph, London - 1953 first UK edition - 15cmx13cm - with dustwrapper

13 "Hornblower and the crisis" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph, 1967 first UK edition - 15cmx13cm - with dustwrapper

14 "Lord Hornblower" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph, London - 1946 first UK edition - 15cmx13cm - with dustwrapper

15 "The Barbary Pirates" by C.S. Forester - New Englsih lib. - 1970 edition -15cmx13cm

16 "Gold from Crete" by C.S. Forester - Michael Joseph - 1971 first edition - ex lib copy with dj

Books in good condition, with some tanning and rubbing to boards, some page foxing, original dustwrappers have some wear and chipping to edges.

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), best known by his pen name C. S. Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars.

The Hornblower novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Other works include The African Queen and The Good Shepherd, both of which were later adapted as movies.

During World War II, he moved to the United States where he worked for the British Ministry of Information, writing propaganda for the Allied cause. He eventually settled in Fullerton, California, where he died in 1966 of complications arising from a stroke