Books

FIRST EDITION, pp. 288, crown 8vo, original mid green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, slight lean to spine, edges lightly spotted, dustjacket with a design by Rowland Hilder to front panel, chipping, a D-shaped crack towards head of lower joint-fold, very good. The first Hornblower book.

The Happy Return is the first novel in the Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester. The book portrays the adventures of the fictional naval officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars as he sails to Central America on a secret mission for the British government.