Joseph Conrad Collection, Matched Set of 26 Titles
by Conrad, Joseph
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Eucha, Oklahoma, United States
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About This Item
26 Volumes, Not numbered. 1925 edition (previously published in 1899 and 1903). Brown Cloth boards to look like leather with gold enhancements. Embossed Schooner on the front cover with a rope border around title on spine and on front cover. Books may have been read one time by my Father when he was a child. Some pages must be split open with a letter opener. Private collection of my Great-Aunt. Titles are as follows: Almayer's Folly, The Arrow of Gold, Chance, The Inheritors, Lord Jim, The Mirror of the Sea, The Nigger of Narcissus, Nostromo, Notes on Life and Letters, Outcast of the Islands, Personal Record, The Rescue, Romance, The Rover, The Secret Agent, A Set of Six, The Shadow Line, Suspense, Tales of Hearsay, Tales of Unrest, 'Twixt Land and Sea, Typhoon, Under Western Eyes, Victory, Within the Tides, Youth (with Heart of Darkness and . The top of the books are gilded on the tops of the pages, the bottoms of the pages are not cut evenly. There is some shelf wear to the books just from being eighty years old. Many have never been read. The pages are clean. All Spines are tight. Inside ROMANCE, at page 264-5 there is a 1951 newspaper clipping of an etching of Conrad on permanent exhibit at the Philbrook Art center which has discolored the two adjacent pages. Shipping of thirty American pounds of books will incur additional shipping costs. (Twenty eight pounds of books, and reasonable packing to protect them.) Our item number 19400.
Details
- Bookseller
- The M.A.D. House Artists (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19400
- Title
- Joseph Conrad Collection, Matched Set of 26 Titles
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jackets
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- JOSEPH CONRAD, COMPLETE WORKS, SETS, FICTION
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...