Tales of Unrest
by Conrad, Joseph
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1923 Doubleday, Page & Company. The Concord Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Hardcover has navy cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Front cover has reverse blue on gold lettering, and small round gold illustration of a sailing ship below the title panel. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece is fold-out map and legend of the travels of "Captain Conrad". NOT ex-library. Binding cracked at half-title page; webbing visible, but pages not loose. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners lightly rubbed. Spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed. Pages very lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Name in ink opposite half-title page. Spine is lightly sunned. Pages clean and unmarked. One page is dog eared. 204 pages. No dust jacket. Contents: Karain: a memory; The idiots; An outpost of progress; The return; The lagoon. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. See our listings for other volumes in this edition.
Synopsis
Of the five stories in this volume, The Lagoon, the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions. Conceived in the same mood which produced Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands, it is told in the same breath (with what was left of it, that is, after the end of An Outcast), seen with the same vision, rendered in the same method - if such a thing as method did exist then in my conscious relation to this new adventure of writing for print.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6276
- Title
- Tales of Unrest
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Fiction,Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature;
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