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Beschreibung: London: William Heinemann, 1921, 1921. 20 volumes, octavo. Attractively bound in recent dark green morocco, terracotta and brown morocco labels, roll to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. The occasional minor blemish, a very good set. Signed limited edition, number 347 of 780 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume 1. The definitive collected works of Conrad, including his own notes on his writings prepared especially for this edition. A handsomely bound set. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 125724

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Beschreibung: New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920, 1920. 24 volumes, octavo. Attractively bound in recent brown morocco, spines gilt in compartments, burgundy and green morocco labels, marbled endpapers, single line rules to boards and top edges gilt. Short closed tear to limitation leaf, frontispiece, and title page of volume I not affecting page contents. An excellent set. Photogravure frontispiece to each volume. The Sun-Dial Edition, one of a limited edition of 750 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume I. A beautifully bound set. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 68436

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Beschreibung: William Heinemann 1921-1927, London, 1921. Signed limited edition of the complete works of Joseph Conrad, one, signed by Joseph Conrad on the limitation-page of Volume I. Octavo, 20 volumes, finely bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. One of 780 copies signed by Conrad. In near fine condition. A nice set.   Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th-century realism. "His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, and Salman Rushdie" (John Stape, The Many Lives of Joseph Conrad). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10004

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Beschreibung: Methuen & Co, London, 1907. Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the 40 pages of inserted ads at the rear. A beautiful copy SIGNED by Joseph Conrad on a laid in signature. This First Issue book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's red cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning. The boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author with a custom acetate dustjacket to protect the book. We buy Joseph Conrad First Editions. Signed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-11673559228

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Beschreibung: Methuen, 1920. Tenth edition. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper, "Catherine Willard from her friend Joseph Conrad 1st Jan 1921". A very good copy indeed with minor wear to the spine ends and some cracking to the front hinge. Catherine Willard (1898-1954) was a noted screen actress and leading lady. She met Conrad in about 1920 through her mother, Grace, who at the time was an interior designer and helping the Conrads furnish their new home, Oswalds, in Bishopsbourne, Kent. She was establishing herself as an actress and was about the same age as the Conrad's son, Borys. The latter suspected his parents of attempting to line her up as a future daughter in law. Conrad was writing his dramatic adaptation of The Secret Agent at the time and had Willard in mind for the heroine. He sent the finished manuscript of the play to her shortly before his death in 1924, and it is probable that he gave her this copy to familiarise herself with the novel, in the hope she would take the part, whilst he finished the play. The Secret Agent has long been regarded as one of Conrad's finest and most enduring novels and was a key influence on both Graham Greene and Eric Ambler. It is notably rare in a presentation state, even as a reprint. "The Secret Agent depicts the atmosphere of Edwardian London in a psychological thriller of the anarchist underworld. Conrad's wit and chivalrous magnanimity are at their airiest in this novel." (Connolly). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 32862

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Beschreibung: London: William Heinemann, 1921, 1921. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. 20 volumes. Octavo. Edition Limited to 780 sets of which this is No. 541, SIGNED by the author. Handsomely bound in half dark blue oasis morocco with gilt titles and gilt raised bands to spines, blue cloth boards, untrimmed edges, top edge gilt. Internally clean; exterior unmarked. A fine set in an attractive recent leather binding. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 47619

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Beschreibung: London, Methuen & Co., 1907, 1907. London, Methuen & Co., 1907, first edition, first printing. Original red cloth with title, author, publisher, and decorations along the spine in gilt, first issue with "be be" on the last line of page 117 and 40-page publisher's catalogue of books for sale at the end dated September 1907, one of 2,500 copies, film source, filmed as Sabotage in 1936 by Alfred Hitchcock, Cagle A12a1, Smith 13, Keating 73. Solid very good, uncommon in this condition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers JD31476

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Beschreibung: Methuen, London, 1907. Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine+. First Edition. First Impression (one of only 2500 copies). First Issue ("be be" on final line of p. 117, six additional text error as noted by Smith, and publisher's catalogue dated September 1907), of the "earliest and best novel portraying the character and fate of a double agent." (Barzun & Taylor) Crown 8vo: [6],442,[2],40pp. Publisher's ruby-red bold-ribbed cloth, spine lettered and ornamented in gold, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; bookplate of A. Beresford Ryley to front paste down. Foxing to front blank, small gutter stain (not affecting text) to pp. 212-17, faint rubbing to spine edges, else an excellent example and scarce such. Keating 73-74. Wise 17. Connolly 15. ("Conrad's greatest heroine.") Barzun & Taylor 903. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Ehrsam, p. 305. Smith 13. A tale of anarchists in late nineteenth-century London, which originally appeared serially in Ridgeway's Weekly. "The plot centres on an attempt to bomb the London Observatory in Greenwich, inspired by a real incident of 1894. The chosen site is of great significance, in terms of science, empire and fame. In 1884, the Prime Meridian Conference established Greenwich as the point from which time would be measured. Though much of the rest of the world was initially resistant, and time was not centred on Greenwich by Europe and America until the International Conference on Time in Paris in 1912, the Prime Meridian Conference also divided the world into twenty-four zones separated by an hour's difference, and enshrined an exact moment at which the universal space-time day would begin." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BB1765

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Beschreibung: J.M. Dent & Sons, London, 1923. Octavo, original cloth, 22 volumes. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of Almayer's Folly and Tales of Unrest, "To Claudine and Allan Wade from their friend Joseph Conrad 1923." The recipients, Allan and Claudine Wade was an actor, director, bibliophile and founder of The Phoenix Society. In excellent condition. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th-century realism. "His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, and Salman Rushdie" (John Stape, The Many Lives of Joseph Conrad). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22019

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Beschreibung: Methuen, London, 1907. Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition of one of Conrad's best, and scarcest, novels. Original vertically ribbed burgundy cloth with spine lettering and decoration in gilt. [i-viii, 1-442, [443-444] + 40pp catalogue dated September 1907. One of 2,500 copies printed, which includes an unknown number of copies for Colonial issue. The domestic issue may have comprised as few as 1,500 copies. Ehrsam 2256, Wise 17; #15 in Connolly's 100 key books of Modernism. Sunning to spine and very light foxing to prelims else a clean and tight copy with no previous ownership inscriptions. Distinctly rare in such good condition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3561

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Beschreibung: London: Methuen & Co., 1907, 1907. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and decoration to spine gilt. Cloth a little rubbed at extremities, a little dulling and some small marks, small chip from lower corner of final leaf of ads, not affecting text. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression, first issue with the 40 pages of inserted ads at the rear. A very nice copy, uncommon in such excellent condition. One of Conrad's very best works - a stunning novel of detection, espionage and revolution. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 87512

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Beschreibung: London: Methuen & Co., 1907, 1907. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Some light spotting to prelims and then the occasional blemish, an excellent copy in a fine binding. First edition, first impression. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 70386

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Beschreibung: T Werner Laurie, 1923. Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition of 1000 copies privately printed for subscribers. This copy is authentically SIGNED by Joseph Conrad. A magnificent copy. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL green paper boards backed in vellum, with the paper spine label present. The binding is tight with slight wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a fabulous copy SIGNED by the author in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Conrad First Editions. Signed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-11673533205

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Beschreibung: London: Methuen & Co., 1907, 1907. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and decoration to spine gilt. Bookplate. Spine faded, lightly rubbed at extremities, a few small spots to the cloth, contents faintly toned. A very good copy. First edition, first impression, first issue with the 40 pages of inserted ads at the back. One of Conrad's very best works - a stunning novel of detection, espionage and revolution. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 71541

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Beschreibung: Canterbury: Printed for the author by H. J. Goulden, Ltd, 1921, 1921. Quarto. Original paper wrappers, front cover lettered in black. Housed in a red cloth folding case, spine lettered in gilt. Covers lightly toned and creased at extremities, small chip to head of spine, short closed tear at head of front cover, chipping at foot of rear cover. A very good copy. First edition, one of 52 copies only privately printed, of Conrad's dramatization of his own novel (first published in 1907). Conrad subsequently revised the play into three acts before its first performance at the Ambassadors Theatre in November 1922 and publication in revised form in 1923. Wise, A Conrad Library, p. 43. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 123876

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Beschreibung: London: Methuen and Co., 1907, 1907. [Landmark Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 442; [1], imprint; [1], blank; [40], advertisement catalogue dated September 1907. Bound in publisher's burgundy coloured cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Edges of text block toned/browned, binding a little sunned to the spine. A very good copy of a Conrad high spot. A bleak and darkly comic story of spies, terrorists, anarchists and agents provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th century. It is considered one of the first modern novels to deal with the subjects of terrorism and espionage and is a cornerstone of detection and spy fiction. The novel formed the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film, 'Sabotage', and was remade in 1996 (as 'The Secret Agent') starring Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette and Gérard Depardieu. Wise: A Conrad Library, p.12. Queen's Quorum. Hubin: Crime Fiction IV, p332. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 51339

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Beschreibung: T. Werner Laurie, LTD. London, 1923. Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION authentically SIGNED by Joseph on the limitation page. An attractive copy of this limited edition of 1000 copies printed with light wear to the spine and edges. The binding is tight and the pages are clean with minor wear. There is NO marks or bookplates in the book. A collectable copy SIGNED by the author. Signed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-18764119878

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Beschreibung: T. Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1923. Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed limited edition 516 of 1000. Toning at spine of book, small bumps at top corners, owners signature on front free end paper and and another owners unobtrusive blind stamp, book plate on front paste down. Dust jacket very good with general soiling and unrepaired seperation at spine and front flap. Housed in custom clam shell box by don Kobetsky, spine, trays and boards covered in burgundy Italian Canepetta cloth, black leather label stamped in gold, trays lined with hand marbled paper by Galen Berry. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3741

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Beschreibung: London: Methuen, 1907, 1907. First Edition; first issue advertisements dated September, 1907 (although there is at least one copy known with ads dated July, 1907, possibly a freak, which may or may not have been issued earlier). A good copy. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 35077

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Beschreibung: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1923. First edition thus. Number 867 of 1000 copies, signed by Conrad. Frontispiece portrait. [x], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. For this edition the third act was subsumed as scene three of the second act, and some dialogue and stage directions were deleted by Conrad. Smith, p. 112; Cagle A54b; Keating 79 Boards backed with parchment, uncut and unopened. Fine copy with just a touch of toning to spine ends. In blue dustjacket Frontispiece portrait. [x], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition thus. Number 867 of 1000 copies, signed by Conrad. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 303619

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Beschreibung: Methuen 1907, 1907. Zustand: Very Good. A first edition, first printing published by Methuen in 1907. A very good bright copy with one neat pencil name to the front endpaper. Some wear to the corners. Some fading to the spine and some wear to the edges. Some small patches of rubbing to the rear board. Some spotting to the prelims. A rare book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9509

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Beschreibung: Methuen & Co, London, 1907. Red hardback cloth cover. First Edition. 442pp. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Rubbing to head and tail. Spine faded. Inner joints weak. Stain at gutter of page 80/81. Lacking pp. 1-2 of the 40 page adverts at end. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers cn-40

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Beschreibung: Methuen & Co Ltd, London, 1907. Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent, A Simple Tale.Methuen London 1907. The Secret Agent is one of Joseph Conrad's later publications. The novel is set within a political setting of espionage and terrorism. This first edition copy is in very good condition and a lovely find. From the collection of the late Aylsham authors and bibliophiles, David and Patricia Cory. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Lightly faded spine with lightly bumped ends. Lower edge of the pages are uncut. Small book plate on the front paste down. Spotting on the first pages. The contents are clean. 8vo 442pp plus publishers catalogue. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000494

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Beschreibung: 1923. First edition. 8vo., original japan vellum backed grey/blue paper boards. Printed paper label on the spine. Dust jacket. London, Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd. Number 569 of 1000 copies signed by the author. Some foxing to the top edge and slight off-setting to the endpapers, otherwise a near fine copy in dust jacket, browned and rubbed on the spine and slightly nicked at a couple of the edges. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 223832

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Beschreibung: London : Privately printed for subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1923. First Edition. Near fine copy in the original cloth, now mylar-sleeved with the title printed on paper. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 185 p. Notes: First Edition, limited to 1,000 copies of which this is number 579. SIGNED by the author. Subjects: Theatre. Drama. Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924). 1 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 263323

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Beschreibung: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only By T. Werner Laurie Ltd., London, 1923. Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Limited Edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Conrad on the limitations page, this being #691. Pale green paper boards backed in vellum, paper spine label, top edge rough trimmed, others deckled. Spinestrip lightly tanned, armorial bookplate to front free endpaper, else near fine, unopened copy in dustwrapper with lightly tanned spine and nicks to spine ends and tips, otherwise very good. Size: Octavo. Signed by Author. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8051

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Beschreibung: T. Werner Laurie, London, 1923. Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Portrait Engraving Frontispiece (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Published in a deluxe edition LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. Original green papercovered boards backed by vellum with title label. What distinguishes this copy is the presence of the very rare dust jacket, along with the near-pristine condition of the book: the jacket did its work well, and has sustained just three small gently closed tears to the back panel edge and a two-inch closed tear to the bottom of the front flap, along with the usual light tanning to the spine (the jacket label remaining bright andd clear) and a small horizontal chip to the top edge, protected by the Mylar plastic cover. The book is unmarked (save for Conrad's signature), and looks new and unread. A better copy is unlikely to be found. Smith, p. 112; Cagle A54b; Keating 79. Size: Octavo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1356035

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Beschreibung: T. Werner Laurie, London, 1923. hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Limited. Fine photogravure frontispiece portrait. Tall 8vo, parchment backed boards, d.w. London: Privately Printed by T. Werner Laurie, 1923. Limited Edition. One of 1000 signed copies. Fine, in a edge-worn & toned dust wrapper. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 178221

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Beschreibung: London, Privately Printed for Subscribers by T. Werner Laurie., 1923. 9 Bl., 185 Seiten, 1 Bl., Frontispiz Porträt, photographiert von Malcolm Arbuthnot. Unbeschnitten. Japan vellum über grau-grünem Vorder- und Rückendeckel. Rücken mit aufgeklebtem gedrucktem Titelschild. Die angegebenen Versandkosten gelten für Bücher bis 1000 Gramm. Bücher über 1000 Gramm kosten nach Deutschland EUR 4,50. Erste Ausgabe. - Nr. 724 von insgesamt 1000 numerierten Exemplaren, von Conrad signiert. Schönes frisches Exemplar. - First edition (for subcriber's) of Conrad's dramatization of his novel about revolutionary anarchists. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by Joseph Conrad. In original publisher's wrappers. With paper label on spine. Absolute Fine copy. Uncut. Sprache: Englisch. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1936AB

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