129 pages, illustrated with black and white plates. The jacket is split both at head of the spine strip and at the head's outer edge, and there is also a neat gift inscription on the front end paper. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. First edition. "The African Queen is a 1951 adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester....(It) was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994, and the Library of Congress deemed it "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant