A Pawn Among Kings
 

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1924] First edition; inscribed on front pastedown "With the compliments of C. S. Forester." There was no American edition of this title.

Toronto: The Macmillan Company, 1924. First edition, Canadian issue, one of approximately 260 copies.
 
 

 
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1924] First edition, in dust jacket.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924. First American edition, in dust jacket. On this copy of the jacket Forester's initials are given as "B. S."

The Paid Piper

 
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1924] First edition. There was no American edition of this title.
 
 

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1925] First edition.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. First American edition.

Payment Deferred
 

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1926] First edition.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1941] Reprint edition, the dust jacket showing Charles Laughton in his first great movie role.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First American edition, in dust jacket.

Love Lies Dreaming
 

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1927] First edition.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company [1927] First American edition, in dust jacket. On both the binding and the dust jacket Forester's initials are given as "C. E."

Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy

 
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1927] First edition.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. First American edition.

The Wonderful Week
 

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1927] First edition.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company [1927] First American edition, published under the title One Wonderful Week.
 
 

Louis XIV King of France and Navarre

 
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1928] First edition.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. First American edition.

The Shadow of the Hawk

 
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1928] First edition.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company [1928] First American edition, in dust jacket; published under the title The Daughter of the Hawk.
 
 
 

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1929] "Advance Proof" copy, as stamped on the binding.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1929] First edition.

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. First American edition, published under the title Single-Handed.

The Voyage of the Annie Marble
 

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1929] First edition. There was no American edition of this title.

Nelson
 

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1929] First edition.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company [1929] First American edition, in dust jacket; published under the title Lord Nelson.

The Annie Marble in Germany
 

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1930] First edition, in dust jacket. There was no American edition of this title.
 
 
 

Plain Murder

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1931] First edition, in dust jacket.

[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1954] First American edition, in original paper wrappers.

U 97 A Play in Three Acts

 
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1931] First edition, in dust jacket. There was no American edition of this title.

Two-and-Twenty

 

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1931] First edition, in dust jacket.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1931. First American edition.
 
 
 

 
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1932] First edition.

New York: The Press of the Readers Club [1942] First American edition, in dust jacket; published under the title Rifleman Dodd in a volume published as Rifleman Dodd and The Gun: Two Novels of the Peninsular Wars.

Barbosa. Original ink and watercolor drawing for the dust jacket of the English edition.

Nurse Cavell A Play in Three Acts
 

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1933] First edition, in the original wrappers. There was no American edition of this title. Written in collaboration with C. E. Bechhofer Roberts.

The Gun

 
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [1933] First edition.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1933. First American edition, in dust jacket.

New York: Dell [1957] Dell Movie Classic no. 824, an adaptation published under the title of the movie version, The Pride and the Passion.

The Peacemaker

 
London: William Heinemann Ltd [1934] First edition.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. First American edition, in dust jacket.

The African Queen

 
London and Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd [1935] "Proof Copy," as printed on the upper wrapper.

London and Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd [1935] First edition.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. First American edition, with truncated text.

New York: The Modern Library [1940] First complete American edition, in dust jacket.

The General

 
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. First edition, in dust jacket. Signed by Forester on the half-title. The first of Forester's books to be published first in the United States.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1936] First English edition, in dust jacket. Signed on the title page: "C. S. Forester. July 1936."

Marionettes at Home
 

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1936] First edition. A purported American "edition" of this title, consisting possibly only of unsold sheets of this edition with a printed slip pasted on the title page, has not been located.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1936] First edition, in a later binding, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester on the front free endpaper: "Elizabeth Brown secretary & barber & good at both, with grateful good wishes from C. S. Forester." Elizabeth ("Betty") Brown served as Forester's secretary for a number of years.
 

The Happy Return

 

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1937] First edition, in dust jacket. Signed by Forester on the half-title. The first Hornblower novel.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937. First American edition, in dust jacket, published under the title Beat to Quarters.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap [1948] Reprint, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester on the half-title: "Harry C. Losey [Forester's Hollywood agent] best wishes from C. S. Forester. Jan 1949."

Ship of the Line

 
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. First edition, in dust jacket. Review copy, with publisher's slip and publicity blurb laid in.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1938] First English edition, published under the title A Ship of the Line.

Flying Colours

 
London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1938] First edition; published in a single volume in conjunction with the Book Society with a reprint of A Ship of the Line.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1938] First separate edition, in dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939. First American edition, in dust jacket.

To the Indies
 

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. First edition, in dust jacket.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1940] "Uncorrected Proof Copy," as printed on the upper wrapper; published under the title The Earthly Paradise.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1940] First English edition, in dust jacket.

The Captain from Connecticut

 
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. First edition, in dust jacket.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1941] First English edition, in dust jacket.
 

Poo-Poo and the Dragons

 

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. First edition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester on the half-title: "Betty & Lennie Brown with best wishes from C. S. Forester."

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1942] First English edition.

The Ship

 
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1943. First edition, in dust jacket (designed by Tom Lea). Inscribed before publication by Forester on the front free endpaper: "Betty Brown, with much gratitude, because without her help I don't think I could have written this any faster. C. S. Forester. April 1943."

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1943] First English edition, in dust jacket.
 
 
 
 

Toronto: S. J. Reginald Saunders [1944] First edition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester on the front free endpaper: "To Betty Brown, Maybe she still wears the scar, but I'm not sure C. S. Forester." "The scar" refers to the principal incident in the title story. This collection was never published in England or the United States.

The Commodore
 

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1944] "Uncorrected proof copy," as printed on the upper wrapper.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1945] First edition, in dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Long galley proofs of the first American edition, published under the title Commodore Hornblower.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Advance proof copy of the first American edition, in original wrappers (lower wrapper missing).

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. First American edition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester before publication on the front free endpaper: "To Betty, very gratefully. She only made one mistake, & that was taking the job on. From C. S. Forester. April 1945."

Lord Hornblower

 
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. First edition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester before publication on the front free endpaper: "To Betty to whom I shall always be grateful for help that cannot be measured from C. S. Forester May 17^th 1946."

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. [1946] First English edition, in dust jacket.

The Sky and the Forest
 

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. First edition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester before publication on the front free endpaper: "To Betty without a kurbash from C. S. Forester with much love & gratitude July 8^th 1948."

London: Michael Joseph [1948] First English edition, in dust jacket.

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

 
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First edition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester on the front free endpaper: "To Betty after eight long years with love from C. S. Forester."

London: Michael Joseph [1950] First edition, in dust jacket.
 

Randall and the River of Time

 
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First edition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester on the front free endpaper: "For Betty, who took all the trouble & did really all the work, gratefully, from C. S. Forester. Oct 12^th 1950"

London: Michael Joseph [1951] First English edition, in dust jacket.
 

Lieutenant Hornblower
 

London: Michael Joseph [1952] First edition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester on the front free endpaper: "To Betty The most long suffering of secretaries with gratitude and thanks from the most long suffering of bosses C. S. Forester. March 1952."

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. First American edition, in dust jacket.

Hornblower and the Atropos

 
Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1953] First edition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester on the front free endpaper: "To Betty without whose kind assistance ---- with best wishes from C. S. Forester. July 1953."

London: Michael Joseph [1953] First English edition, in dust jacket.
 
 
 

The Barbary Pirates

New York: Random House [1953] First edition, in dust jacket.

London: Macdonald [1956] First English edition.
 

The Adventures of John Wetherell

 
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. First edition, in dust jacket (designed by Edward Gorey).

London: Michael Joseph [1954] "Uncorrected proof" of the first English edition, in original wrappers; the publisher's file copy (so stamped on upper cover).

London: Michael Joseph [1954] First English edition, in dust jacket.

The Nightmare
 

Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1954] First edition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester on the front free endpaper: "To Betty on the morning after from C. S. Forester. July 7^th 1954."

London: Michael Joseph [1954] First English edition, in dust jacket.

The Good Shepherd

 
[New York: Life] 1955. "Advance Galley Proofs" of the novel as it was condensed to some 35,000 words to appear in consecutive issues of Life on March 14 and March 21, 1955, in the same manner as had Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea a few years previously.
 

Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1955] First edition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Forester on the front free endpaper: "Betty The only person I can be sure read every single word with every good wish from C. S. Forester."

London: Michael Joseph [1955] First English edition, in dust jacket.

The Age of Fighting Sail
 

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. First edition, in dust jacket.

London: Michael Joseph [1957] First English edition, in dust jacket, published under the title The Naval War of 1812.
 
 
 

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
 

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company [1958] First edition, in dust jacket.

London: Michael Joseph [1958] First English edition, in dust jacket, published under the title Hornblower in the West Indies.
 

The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck
 

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company [1959] First edition, in dust jacket.

London: Michael Joseph [1959] First English edition, in dust jacket, published under the title Hunting the Bismarck.

Hornblower and the Hotspur
 

London: Michael Joseph [1962] First edition, in dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1962] "Uncorrected Proofs," as printed on the wrapper of the spiral binding; no formal title page.

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company [1962] First American edition, in dust jacket.

The Hornblower Companion
 

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company [1964] First edition, in dust jacket.

London: Michael Joseph [1964] First English edition, in dust jacket.

Hornblower and the Crisis
 

London: Michael Joseph [1967] First edition, in dust jacket.

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company [1967] Uncorrected proofs, spiral-bound; published under the title Hornblower During the Crisis.

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company [1967] First American edition, in dust jacket.
 

Long Before Forty
 

London: Michael Joseph [1967] "Uncorrected Proof Copy," as printed on the upper wrapper.

London: Michael Joseph [1967] First edition, in dust jacket. Signed on the dust jacket by its designer, Michael Harvey.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1967] First American edition, in dust jacket.
 

The Man in the Yellow Raft
 

London: Michael Joseph [1969] "Uncorrected Proof Copy," as printed on the upper wrapper, but sent out in dust jacket.

London: Michael Joseph [1969] First edition, in dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1969] First American edition, in dust jacket.

Gold from Crete
 

Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1970] First edition, in dust jacket. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in.

London: Michael Joseph [1971] First English edition, in dust jacket. Omits one story that appeared in the American edition, "You Are Welcome!"

Hornblower - One More Time
 

Tacoma: Published for the Richard Bolitho Association by the Non-Profit Press [1976] First edition, in dust jacket. Copy #21 of 25 (of a total edition of 350) printed on special paper and signed by Alexander Kent. With a copy of the special keepsake (#21) prepared for the publication party in 50 copies. With copy #53 of the "regular" edition.