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Lord Jim. A Tale
by Conrad, Joseph
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London & Toronto/Paris: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd./J.M. Dent et Fils, 1917. Originally published by Blackwood in 1900. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the Second Edition with Dent as the publisher. This is the Second Printing [stated "Reprinted. November 1917"]. which can also be called a First Edition Thus, since Dent reset the type and added a new Preface by Conrad, along with a frontis portrait. The first issue was very small; scarce in any printing. Green cloth binding, decorated with decorative stamping in black on the front cover and spine; titling on the spine in gilt. Clean text; ix, 420 pages. Very light wear, with the gilt dulled on the spine; bubbling to the covers. No dustwrapper; in an archival plastic protector.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005832
- Title
- Lord Jim. A Tale
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd./J.M. Dent et Fils
- Place of Publication
- London & Toronto/Paris
- Date Published
- 1917
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- New
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