Hardcover volume, 24 x 15 cm, bound in quarter parchment over pale blue cloth, paper label to spine, pale blue dust jacket with a paper label, another label bound in at the end, printed on thick laid paper, untrimmed, uncut, pp. [4] blank, [2] blank/advert., [2] h.t./blank, t.p./imprint (riverside press Ltd.), [2] limitation/blank, [2] persons/blank, [1] 2-185 [3], photogravure portrait frontispiece by Emery Walker with captioned tissue guard.
Title-page: The SECRET AGENT | A DRAMA IN THREE ACTS | by | JOSEPH CONRAD | LONDON | Privately Printed for Subscribers ONLY BY | T. WERNER LAURIE LTD. | 1923 ||
Edition: Limited edition of 1,000 copies sighed by the author; this is copy № 12.
Catalogue Raisonné: Keating № 79 / p. 169.
Seller’s Description: one of 1000 copies signed by the author, photogravure portrait frontispiece by Emery Walker, endpapers lightly browned, original parchment-backed boards, dust-jacket, spine lightly browned with 2 small staining spots, ends a little creased, uncut and unopened, overall an excellent copy, 8vo, 1923.
Contributors:
Joseph Conrad (Polish-British, 1857 – 1924) – author.
Thomas Werner Laurie (British, 1866 – 1944) – publisher.
Emery Walker (British, 1851 – 1933) – artist.
The Riverside Press Limited (Edinburgh) – printer.
First edition: [LIB-2762.2021] Joseph Conrad. The secret agent: a simple tale. — London: Methuen & Co., [1907]
Additional Information
| Collection | Library , Literature |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Book |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Period | 20 AD , Early 20th century |
| Subject | Anarchists , England , English literature , Fiction , London , Revolution , Secret societies , Socialist-Revolutionaries |
| Language | English |
| Media/Technique | Laid paper , Paper , Photogravure |
| Edition | 1st edition, thus , Limited |
| Binding | 1/4 , Cloth , Hardcover , Original , Parchment |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1923 |
| Size | 8vo |
| Catalogue raisonne | Keating (1929) |
| Acquisition year | 2023 |