UNDER WESTERN EYES. A Novel
by Conrad, Joseph
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- first
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1911. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. Original dark blue cloth.
First American Edition of this tale of revolutionaries in czarist Russia, centered about the double-agent Razumov. Harper declined to handle the serialization "because their magazine circulated in Russia and they feared it would cause a breach in their good relations with that country" [Cagle]. This copy is in dark blue cloth, which is the only color mentioned by Cagle or Supino; however, we have also seen this book bound in a much brighter blue cloth. Although half of this edition's 4,000 copies sold in the first year, the rest sold slowly through 1917: we would surmise that the cloth color variance was due to copies being bound up over so many years. This is a near-fine copy (scarcely any wear, but as usual the spine lettering is a bit dulled). Supino A14.8.0; Cagle A14c.
First American Edition of this tale of revolutionaries in czarist Russia, centered about the double-agent Razumov. Harper declined to handle the serialization "because their magazine circulated in Russia and they feared it would cause a breach in their good relations with that country" [Cagle]. This copy is in dark blue cloth, which is the only color mentioned by Cagle or Supino; however, we have also seen this book bound in a much brighter blue cloth. Although half of this edition's 4,000 copies sold in the first year, the rest sold slowly through 1917: we would surmise that the cloth color variance was due to copies being bound up over so many years. This is a near-fine copy (scarcely any wear, but as usual the spine lettering is a bit dulled). Supino A14.8.0; Cagle A14c.
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- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15145
- Title
- UNDER WESTERN EYES. A Novel
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- Russia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
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Sumner & Stillman
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Yarmouth, Maine
About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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