Secret Agent by Conrad, Joseph - 1953

[ Edition: Reprint ]. Poor Condition. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Torn pages: YES ] [ Broken Seams: YES ] Publisher: Anchor Pub Date: 4/14/1953 Binding: Paperback Pages: 256

Anchor Books, 1953. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Anchor, 1953. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Mass-market paperback, illustration on front wrapper, spine and back wrapper by Herby Steinberg showing the building of Greenwich, England, praise on back wrapper from F.R. Leavis, 253 lightly browned pages, tiny brown spots on exterior page edges, very light crease at bottom front right, slight wear to spine bottom edge, light wear to top back and long spine edges, light crease at top back left. Near Very Good.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1953. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Type: Book 1953. Last owner's name written in pen on first, second, and 99th page. Light wear to wraps.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor, April 1953. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack . Very Good. Mass market paperback. Anchor reprint with mild dust staining. [253 pages plus two page list of Anchor titles then available.]

Garden City , NY: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1953. Vintage Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; sound w/nips, chips & rubs to edges & surface.Novel by Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), dedicated to H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946). First published in 1907; this a 1953 softcover carrying a 1920 note from author. 253 pgs. Set in the 1886 London of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, depicting the rise of notions of anarchism, espionage, and terrorism presagin anarchist & revolutionary groups of the early 20th century. Story of the life of business man Adolf Verloc, who owns a Soho pornographic shop, and is a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). Protagonist Verloc lives a complex life w/wife, mother-in-law and handicapped (autistic?) brother-in-law Stevie, to whom he often plays a parental role. The novel was modified as a stage play by Conrad himself and has been adapted for film, TV, radio and opera.