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The Nature of a Crime. Laughing Anne. One Day More. The Secret Agent
by Conrad, Joseph & Ford Madox Ford (F.M. Hueffer)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Conrad's collaboration with Ford is well-known and widely available, but here is an extremely scarce Conrad printing. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Trade Edition [stated "First Edition after the printing of 750 de luxe copies"], containing three plays: "Laughing Anne," "One Day More" and most interestingly, "The Secret Agent." Conrad's novel first appeared as a 3-act play in a 1923 English printing; but this American version is a four-act play. Blue cloth binding with titling in gilt on the spine and front cover, which also features a ship at sea. Clean text, absolutely pristine; 1x, 59 pages (including Appendix); xi, 34 pages; and 35 pages. "The Secret Agent" features two pages of set diagrams, a list of personae, Title Page, 129 pages. There is an inked name on the FFEP, and the spine gilt is a bit dulled. Else a Fine copy; in an archival plastic protector.. First Trade Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005961
- Title
- The Nature of a Crime. Laughing Anne. One Day More. The Secret Agent
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph & Ford Madox Ford (F.M. Hueffer)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Trade Edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
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Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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