Lot 69
  • 69

Conrad, Joseph

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Suspense. A Napoleonic Novel. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925
  • Paper
8vo, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 350 OF 375 COPIES, original parchment boards gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, ORIGINAL TISSUE DUST-JACKET AND BLUE PRINTED DUST-JACKET (lettered on spine), original slipcase with numbered label on spine

Literature

not in Cagle

Condition

a good copy
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Catalogue Note

Conrad's last novel, published after his death (in 1924), uniform in format with The Rover (see lot *****). A remarkably good and complete copy with the original (inner) tissue dust-jacket as well as the blue (outer) dust-jacket and the slipcase.