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The Shadow-Line: A Confession
de Conrad, Joseph
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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London and Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. 227; 18pp. Octavo [19 cm] Light green cloth with gilt and brown ink stamped titles, decorative borders and nautical designs on the spine and front cover. Very good. The spine is rolled and heavily darkened. The gilt stamped title on the spine has faded. The underlying front board is exposed along the fore edge, and there is a thin, 1" tall loss from the fore edge of the front board as well. The cloth at the head of the spine is frayed, and there are numerous short tears in the cloth at the foot of the spine. The front hinge is weak, and there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Tanned pages. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English author and master mariner, famous for writing Heart of Darkness in 1902.
Sinopsis
Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. His parents, ardent Polish patriots, died when he was a child, following their exile for anti-Russian activities, and he came under the protection of his tradition-conscious uncle, Thaddeus Bobrowski, who watched over him for the next twenty-five years. In 1874 Bobrowski conceded to his nephew's passionate desire to go to sea, and Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality and his Master's certificate in the British Merchant Service. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly , in 1895. The following year he married Jessie George and eventually settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth , Heart of Darkness , Lord Jim , Typhoon , Nostromo , The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes . He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English—his third language. He once described himself as being concerned 'with the ideal value of things, events and people'; in the Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' he defined his task as 'by the power of the written word ... before all, to make you see'.
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- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- 35725
- Título
- The Shadow-Line: A Confession
- Autor
- Conrad, Joseph
- Formato/Encuadernación
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- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- London and Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 1917
- Palabras clave
- Joseph Conrad; first edition; DENVER 2018
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
