First edition hardback in a dust jacket.

Lieutenant Hornblower follows young Horatio Hornblower aboard HMS Renown, seen through Lieutenant Bush’s eyes. Amid a captain’s growing paranoia, tense councils in the shadows, and perilous strikes against Spanish forces in the Caribbean, Hornblower’s quick thinking and composure earn him hard‑won triumphs.

The book is in good condition, tightly bound, spine a little cocked, top edge greyed other Edges browned. Book plate on the endpaper; light foxing on the endpapers.  The text block is generally clean, free of markings and foxing. The dust jacket is worn to the extremities, uncut showing 12s 6d.