Victory an Island Tale

Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915, first edition, first printing.. Original dark blue cloth, world map on front endpapers showing the locations of Conrad's novels, the courses of the ships, etc., first issue with all of Smith's points, including the missing quotation mark at the beginning of line 3, page 431, one of 10,000 copies, published six months… Saber más sobre este artículo

Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1915. FIRST U. K EDITION. 8vo. 1st state of title page with the comma present after Essex Street. 4pp of publishers advert, dated autumn 1915. 31pp publishers catalogue, dated 8/5/15 bound in at rear. A very good clean copy in publishers original red cloth, titles and decoration to spine in gilt. Previous owner neat… Saber más sobre este artículo

1915. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company 1915. Original navy blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition (published on March 26th, six months before the London edition) of Conrad's sad tale of Axel Heyst and the evil (for which read "Germanic") Schomberg. Due to the six-month delay of Methuen's edition, with the Great War raging, Conrad added… Saber más sobre este artículo

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co.. Very Good. 1930. Hardcover. Autograph; xviii, 412 pages; Clean and secure in original flexible navy leather binding with gilt lettering, some wear at spine. Former owner's signature on ffep "Potter Stewart" U.S. Supreme Court Justice. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Potter Stewart to the Supreme Court to replace… Saber más sobre este artículo

This is Joseph Conrad's Victory, aka Victory, An Island Tale, which was originally published in 1915. This book was his first success. It has been adapted into films five times, most recently in 1995. Harold Pinter wrote a screenplay for it in 1982; the film was not made but, in 2015, the BBC adapted that screenplay for radio. Story: Axel Heyst,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1924. Tenth Edition. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light soiling to pastedowns. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Methuen, 1915 cloth borads lightly soiled or mottled, foxed closed edges, some scattered foxing to pages, corner cloth frayed at tips, viii 415+4+31pp adverts dated 8/5/15, lower corner edge of rear advertising catalog has some offset red dye from the cloth, first impression. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Methuen & Co, 1915. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Some fading to the spine which has small tears to the top and at join with boards. Lower front hinge tender. Small ownership inscription on front free end-paper. Pp.viii,415 + 4 pages adverts. for "Methuen's… Saber más sobre este artículo

LONDON: EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY, 1967. REPRINT . Hardcover. Good/Good. Rubbed, sunned wrapper, sharp corners, some marks to boards. Clean throughout. Good.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd,, 1915. A remarkable survival from a watershed moment in British publishing First British edition, first impression, in an exceptional example of the scarce dust jacket, one of the earliest graphically designed jackets issued by a British publisher, featuring a specially commissioned illustration not based on the cloth cover design nor an illustration in the… Saber más sobre este artículo

1915. London: Methuen & Co., (1915). 4 pp ads dated Autumn 1915 plus 31 pp ads dated "8/5/15". Original red cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First English Edition. This was issued about six months after the New York edition, due to delays related to Conrad's displeasure with Methuen ("It was Conrad's last book with Methuen and one wonders who… Saber más sobre este artículo

Methuen & Co, 1926. Hardcover. Good. 1926. 15th Edition. 328 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Markings to some pages. Pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Staining overall.

LONDON: METHUEN AND CO LTD, 1923. EIGHTH EDITION . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed and marked, spine cracked at both edges and sunned, ink inscription on front free endpaper, pages mellowed. Clean throughout. Good.

N.Y: Doubleday Page & Co., 1915. 462 pages. Blue cloth binding. Gilded lettering and design on cover and spine. Top and bottom edges of spine are creased and frayed. All 4 corners of binding are lightly frayed. All around a great and very interesting book in good condition. Pictures upon request.. Cloth. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Following Conrad's acknowledged masterpieces, "Victory" received a mixed critical reception; nonetheless it was his first real commercial success. The continued fascination with the moral questions raised suggests more meat than initially recognized. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition. The "true" first, as it preceded the English issue, and… Saber más sobre este artículo

1915. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Original blue limp leather decorated in gilt. First Edition, second printing, issued about 30 days after the first. (The first printing was in navy blue cloth, and this much-scarcer second, priced a bit higher, was in this "Deep Sea" format of blue limp leather.) This is a good-to-very good… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.., 1915. This is a Very Good copy of the First English Edition. [stated "First Published in 1915"]. The English edition contains Conrad's Note, which did not appear in the American version. Red cloth binding with titling on the spine in gilt. Clean text; viii, 415 pages. A 4-page list follows, dated "Autumn, 1915'" rather than… Saber más sobre este artículo

J M Dent, 1965, Everyman Library edition,. 1965. Soft cover. paperback, 412pp, edges browning, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, covers browning, no creasing on spine, Good condition. .

London: Methuen & Co, 1915. First English edition, first issue. viii, 415 pp., 31 pp. publisher's advertisements. 1 vols. Crown 8vo. Publisher's red linen cloth with gilt spine title, catalog dated 8/15 at rear, "1sts edition" in ink on front paste down, spine sunned, and with faint bumping to corners, otherwise near fine. First English edition, first issue.… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Book Society, 1952. Introduction by V S Pritchett. 323pp + list of Conrad's Works. Beige cloth boards with brown spine with gilt title. Decorated endpapers. A couple of very small spots on foredge, otherwise clean.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.