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Doubleday, 1959. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedGood. Good solid paperback with moderate reading/age wear, may have some light markings, pages may have some mild tanning. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1947. Hardcover. Good. 1947. Ninth Impression. 375 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Doubleday, Page, & Co, 1928. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket (As Issued). Dark blue cloth covers with gilded spine titles & a gold stamped cover title design. Part of the Concord Edition of Conrad's works. A Good copy. Book has shelfwear, edgewear, bumped corners, soiling & dampstaining to covers, toning to pages, & discoloration to endpapers & inside covers. Interior is tight, clean, & unmarked. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in.

William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1947. 375 pages. Beige jacket over red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water marks to edges and corners.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1959. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack . Good. Dust stains and darkening. Ink scribbling on half title page.[307 pages]

Paperback / softback. New.

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

1917. J. M. Dent and Son. London. 1917. First edition thus with new 4 page introduction by author. The three stories including "Heart of Darkness" were originally published by William Blackwood in 1902 and good copies are scarce. No DW. x, [ii], 370 pages + [2] pages adverts. Original green cloth gilt, decorated and bordered in black. Head of spine slightly crumpled and frayed, small portion of upper joint rubbed, spine sunned, endpapers browned otherwise a sound copy of a scarce item.

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1902. First Edition; presumed second issue (11/02) publisher’s catalogue. Ownership signature; cloth bubbling a little, else about very good IOne of those stories is “Heart of Darkness.”

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. First Edition. First issue with publisher's ads dated 10/02 in rear. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth stamped in black, black and gilt-lettered spine; [8],375,[1],32pp. General wear to extremities, brief dent at spine crown, spine gilt and cloth rather faded, light foxing to textblock fore-edge, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown; rough erasure to gift inscription on front endpaper; Very Good only.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. 1902. First edition, first printing, [first state]. First edition, first printing, [first state]. Publisher's original green cloth with titles and decoration in black to the upper board and in gilt and black to the spine. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing to the extremities, bumping and minor fraying to the tips of the slightly darkened spine. The rear board has a rectangular patch where the cloth is a touch lighter, possibly from a historic removed label. The contents are spotted to the prelims and margins throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The publisher's first state catalogue running to 32 pages and dated October 1902 (listing this book as 'in the press') to the rear. Published 13 November 1902 in an edition of 3150 copies (including colonial copies). The collection, comprising three novellas, is notable for the first appearance in book form of Conrad's masterpiece 'Heart of… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons,, 1902. The horror! The horror! First edition, first impression. The volume marks the first book-form publication of three novellas by Conrad, including "Heart of Darkness", his best-known and most influential work. "A depressing African journey into the Congo Free State in 1890, when he travelled overland and in a paddle-steamer, would be recollected and powerfully transformed in his masterpiece... 'Heart of Darkness', which offered a forewarning of the Hitlerian demagogue, seems virtually inexhaustible in its recessive ambiguities and paradoxes" (ODNB). The story continues to attract fierce debate and criticism. The three novellas were originally serialized in Blackwood's Magazine in 1898, 1899, and 1902. Of this volume, Conrad wrote: "Youth and Heart of Darkness are the first short stories of mine which attracted attention to my work in a wider sphere. Most critics dismissed The End of the Tether either with contempt or with a few cursory remarks" (Wise). This… Read More