The Sea Dreamer: A Definitive Biography of Joseph Conrad by Jean-Aubry, Gerard - 1957

George Allen & Unwin. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1951. 321pp. Blue cloth binding. Light wear, color fading to spine and parts of back. Signature on endpaper dated 1958. Pencil notes on back endpapers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover. Good.

Doubleday, 1957 FEP has newspaper stain and the cover has a stain about the size of a nickel. DJ has rubbing down the faded spine edge but there are no chips or other markings. INCLUDED IS THE NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW FROM 1957

Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1967. HC. good, cream cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket - staining on cloth. First published in 1957 by Doubleday Company. This is an unaltered and unabridged edition. NO DUSTJACKET - SOME STAIING ON CLOTH COVERS 321pp.

New York: Doubleday & Co, 1957. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Previous owner's name and date on front inside panel, gold stamped cloth spine, bumped cloth corners, clean text. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1957. 1st edition . Hardcover. Very good condition chipped d.j./fair. 321p.

Garden City: Doubleday. Hardcover. 1957. 8vo 321pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. DJ spine faded .

Doubleday. Collectible - Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1957. 1st, First Edition. Hard Cover. (S224) .

Doubleday, 1957-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1957 stated first edition with unclipped dj. Unmarked text. Pages tanned. Dj with moderate surface wear, stains at spine. Small tears along edges. Front flap bent. Bookplate in front. Lh

New. Of Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken has written: 'There was something almost suggesting the vastness of a natural phenomenon. He transcended all the rules. There have been perhaps, greater novelists, but I believe that he was incomparably the greatest artist whoever wrote a novel.' Originally published in 1957, the year of the centenary of Conrad's birth, and although he was firmly established among the world's great literary figures, little was known about him generally, beyond the fact that he was himself once a sailor, and that the language he handled with such mastery was not the one to which he was born. This was described as the definitive biography, written by one of Conrad's closest friends, to whom the novelist willed his personal papers. It took many years to prepare and the author travelled extensively in the lands that Conrad knew and wrote about. He writes with clarity, compassion and understanding of Conrad's childhood in Russia (where the father was exiled for… Read More