The Arrow of Gold
by Joseph Conrad
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
385, [blank] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First US edition, first issue. A VG+ copy in original blue cloth, spine and upper board gilt. Spine faded/soiled. Slight spine lean. Light rubbing to tips. Interior clean other than light foxing on title page gutter and rear board. Text block has slight foxing.
Synopsis
Set in the 1870s, this tale concerns the love of an English sea captain for the Spanish beauty Dona Rita. He carries Carlist munitions to Peninsular ports, she finances the project. Conrad recounts all the adventures of gun-running and the ever-threatening sea, but never loses his theme, the beautiful and transitory nature of love. Conrad treasured this story, and explained it as a fragment from his "buried youth."
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- Bookseller
- EGR books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3087
- Title
- The Arrow of Gold
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Pages
- 385
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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- Gilt
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.