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1999Q-0026415461Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub 1999-05-20. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub paperback
19201281441920. Signed. CONRAD Joseph. The Works. Twenty-two volumes. WITH: JEAN-AUBRY G. Life and Letters. Two volumes. Garden City: Doubleday Page; Doubleday Doran 1920-28. Altogether twenty-four volumes. Octavo contemporary three-quarter dark brown morocco gilt raised bands top edges gilt uncut. $12800.Signed limited ""Sun-Dial Edition"" of Conrad's works number 651 of 735 sets including the two-volume Life and Letters signed in the first volume by Conrad handsomely bound by Stikeman.""Conrad's work at its best achieved a synthesis of theme treatment and language of a kind without precedent in English literature To a degree beyond the ordinary he owed his fame to the good fortune of a remarkable life-story which enabled him to use as material for fiction many strange and picturesque experiences"" DNB. With photographic frontispiece portraits of Conrad in Almayer's Folly and each of the volumes of Life and Letters. Interior fine spines evenly sunned to light brown; expert repairs to bindings of several volumes primarily joints and spine ends. A near-fine set. hardcover
1993HVD-69216-A-0Chicago IL: Lawrence Hill Books. Fair. 1993. Second Edition; First Printing. Paperback. 6 X 0.75 X 9 inches; 268 pages; moderate faint stains and foxing on the exterior edges of textblock. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. . Lawrence Hill Books paperback
199648890Folio Society 1996-2005. 17 vols. 8vo. with illustrations; decorative blue cloth blocked and lettered in silver grey endpapers a near fine set in publisher's original board slip-cases lettered in silver. The set comprises: Heart of Darkness Typhoon & Other Tales The Shadow Line The Arrow of Gold The Secret Agent Lord Jim The Rescue Almayer's Folly Chance Nostromo The Rover Victory The Mirror of the Sea The Secret Sharer Under Western Eyes The Duel & Other Tales An Outcast of the Islands. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE Folio Society, hardcover
192133436London: William Heinemann 1921. 20 volumes. The scarce and handsome Autograph Edition SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY JOSEPH CONRAD. Tall 8vo in the publisher's original tan buckram cloth over brown paper covered boards the spines lettered in black the upper covers with autograph of Conrad in black. A very good and handsome set some mellowing to the spine panels and other light evidence of age a few spots here or there still a pleasing and handsome set. A pleasing autographed set of Conrad's works. The tasteful presentation is fitting to this master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. His stories and novels many with nautical settings depict the trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive inscrutable universe. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors including F. Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway André Malraux George Orwell Graham Greene Gabriel García Márquez John le Carré V. S. Naipaul Philip Roth J. M. Coetzee and Salman Rushdie. William Heinemann hardcover
1907010779New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1907. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition / First Printing. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 373 pp previous owner's inked line ffep & inked initials fr pastedown. 5" x 7.5" gray cloth boards embossed fr cover design dimmed gilt spine titles. Binding tight with slight forward lean pages clean unmarked paper well-preserved. exterior cloth VG-Fine. in glassine mayler wrapper. Harper & Brothers Publishers Hardcover
1923037597New York: Doubleday 1923. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Slight shelfwear - a nice copy in a lovely jacket with slight wear at the edges and a few tiny chips. The first U.S. edition published just before the UK trade edition. $2.00 price on jacket flap. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 037597. Doubleday hardcover
19232820T Fisher Unwin 1923. 8vo. First UK Edition pencilled signature on front free endpaper; red cloth gilt gilt back uncut covers lightly faded else a very good copy. The red cloth binding is a variant not recorded by Smith; all other points are correct. Smith 25 T Fisher Unwin, hardcover
1929011368London: Ernest Benn 1929 first edition thus as a collected omnibus green cloth due to large size binding has loosened somewhat pencil name to fep front hinge weakening at half title closed edges dusty dust jacket is unclipped but dust soiled has a bookseller label to middle of spine short edge tears a tear to bottom of upper joint some considerable silverfish damamge to the rear panel along the fore edge and the joint with some loss of paper showing as holess. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Ernest Benn hardcover
1997Q-0822530244Lerner Pub Group 1997-10-01. Library Binding. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Lerner Pub Group unknown
1925098309London & Toronto : J. M. Dent 1925. Book measures 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches. 303pp 4pp booklist. Bound in original publishers maroon cloth. Cloth lightly rubbed gilt fading from spine. Binding in good clean firm condition. Dust jackets chipped with loss in several places in 2 secition. Internally small previous owners stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy in a worn but rare dust jacket. . First Edition. Publishers Cloth. Very Good/Good. J. M. Dent
2000Q-096216948xPenngrove Publications 2000-06-06. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penngrove Publications paperback
19171091641917. First Edition. CONRAD Joseph. The Shadow Line: A Confession. London: J.M. Dent & Sons 1917. Octavo original gray-green cloth decorated in red original dust jacket. $1900.First edition of this autobiographical novel based on Conrads 1888 first command. A lovely copy in the scarce original dust jacket.Of this book Conrad has written: ""This story has been in my mind for some years. Originally I used to think of it under the name of First Command. When I managed in the second year of war to concentrate my mind sufficiently to begin working I turned to this subject as the easiest. But in consequence of my changed mental attitude to it it became The Shadow Line."" This novel tells the story of an extraordinary experience of Conrad's first command as Captain of the Otago while bound from Bangkok to Australia. It was on January 5 1888 while at Singapore that Conrad suddenly decided to throw up his berth on the Vidar and while preparing to return to Europe in search of a ship circumstances unexpectedly put him in the way of just what he wantedthe command of a sailing vessel Keating 263-64. First serialized in The English Review September 1916-March 1917. ""The English Review version was substantially revised Conrad continued polishing while reading proof Possibly by the time he returned these to Dent it was too late to forward the corrections to Doubleday Page. In any event these final changes are incorporated in the English but not the American edition"" Cagle. With 18 pages of publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Cagle A21.a.1. Keating 119. Book fine scarce original dust jacket usually not present with shallow chipping to ends of mildly toned spine front and rear panels clean and bright very good. A very nice copy in unrestored original dust jacket. hardcover
1994Q-082253004xLerner Pub Group 1994-11-01. Library Binding. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Lerner Pub Group unknown
1989Q-0070554374Mcgraw-Hill 1989-05-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Mcgraw-Hill paperback
1998Q-0070580472McGraw-Hill 1998-10-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! McGraw-Hill paperback
1996Q-0070572275McGraw-Hill 1996-11-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! McGraw-Hill paperback
1985Q-0070691282Mcgraw-Hill 1985-10-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Mcgraw-Hill paperback
1999Q-0070527164McGraw-Hill 1999-10-28. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! McGraw-Hill paperback
1994Q-0822530023Lerner Pub Group 1994-09-01. Library Binding. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Lerner Pub Group unknown
1923005480NY: DOUBLEDAY PAGE 1923. FIRST. . Hardcover. Near Fine/G00D. N/A. A LOVELY BRIGHT CRISP FIRST EDITION COPYRIGHT PAGE AND TITLE PAGE STATE 1923 AND NOTHING ELSE VERY NEAT PREVIOUS OWNERS INSCIPTION FROM 12/25/23 BOUND IN NAVY BLUE WITH PERFECT GILT DESIGN AND LETTERING SQUARE CORNERS JACKET IS BRITTLE WITH A LONG TEAR UP ONE SIDE OF SPINE AND SOME LIGHT SOILING ORIGINAL PRICE WAS 2.00 UNCLIPPED <br/> <br/> DOUBLEDAY PAGE hardcover
1955mon0000496868J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1955T. hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. This is the 1966 JM Dent Reprint. Ex-library book usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Some staining on fore edge. Slight wearing along top edge of page 165. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd hardcover
197733144New York: Easton Press 1977. First Limited Easton Press Collector's Edition. With three double-spread colour lithographs and sixteen smaller black and white lithographs by Lynd Ward who also painted the colour frontispiece portrait of Joseph Conrad. 8vo original full navy morrocco gilt lettering and decorations on the spine and covers silk endpapers a.e.g. x 407 pp. A pristine copy as mint. A PRISTINE COPY WITH INTRODUCTION BY NICHOLAS MONSARRAT. Considered by many Conrad's finest work Lord Jim has its background the sea and maritime places. Easton Press unknown
1999Q-1891795023Rgu Group 1999-05-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Rgu Group hardcover
1999DADAX1891795023Brand: RGU Group 1999-05-01. First Edition. hardcover. New. 9.50x0.50x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: RGU Group hardcover