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

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