THE ARROW OF GOLD. A Story Between Two Notes
by Conrad, Joseph
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- first
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1919. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1919. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt, with dust jacket.
First Edition, first impression. Because no American periodical would serialize it, THE ARROW OF GOLD was published there about four months before (and lacking many of Conrad's last-minute changes made in time for) the London edition. This copy is from the first impression, with only 20 books listed opposite the title page -- THE SHADOW LINE having been omitted; the second impression is the same but is on thinner paper in the "Deep Sea" limp-leather binding. (There were then third and fourth impressions in 1919, in cloth and in limp leather respectively, listing all 21 books and with several minor alterations in the text.) The volume is in fine, bright condition. Included is the very scarce dust jacket (scarcer, in our opinion, than the jackets for several earlier American Conrad titles such as VICTORY and WITHIN THE TIDES). The jacket is unusual on two counts: first, it is pictorial (well... a picture of a red arrow), unlike all but one of the other DP&Co Conrad jackets; second, it includes on its verso a biographical sketch of Conrad (including a full-length portrait). This jacket is in very good condition (a few small chips and creases, but with all text present). Supino A21.1.0 (this copy); Cagle A38a(1). Provenance: discreet bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino.
First Edition, first impression. Because no American periodical would serialize it, THE ARROW OF GOLD was published there about four months before (and lacking many of Conrad's last-minute changes made in time for) the London edition. This copy is from the first impression, with only 20 books listed opposite the title page -- THE SHADOW LINE having been omitted; the second impression is the same but is on thinner paper in the "Deep Sea" limp-leather binding. (There were then third and fourth impressions in 1919, in cloth and in limp leather respectively, listing all 21 books and with several minor alterations in the text.) The volume is in fine, bright condition. Included is the very scarce dust jacket (scarcer, in our opinion, than the jackets for several earlier American Conrad titles such as VICTORY and WITHIN THE TIDES). The jacket is unusual on two counts: first, it is pictorial (well... a picture of a red arrow), unlike all but one of the other DP&Co Conrad jackets; second, it includes on its verso a biographical sketch of Conrad (including a full-length portrait). This jacket is in very good condition (a few small chips and creases, but with all text present). Supino A21.1.0 (this copy); Cagle A38a(1). Provenance: discreet bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15403
- Title
- THE ARROW OF GOLD. A Story Between Two Notes
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- Maritime
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction (Early 20th Century); Maritime;
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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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