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J.M. Dent & Sons, 1962. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Victory. An Island Tale. by CONRAD, Joseph - 1915
by CONRAD, Joseph
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Victory. An Island Tale.
by CONRAD, Joseph
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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd,, 1915. A remarkable survival from a watershed moment in British publishing First British edition, first impression, in an exceptional example of the scarce dust jacket, one of the earliest graphically designed jackets issued by a British publisher, featuring a specially commissioned illustration not based on the cloth cover design nor an illustration in the book. Victory was published as part of Methuen's "Popular Novels" series, which marked a sea change in the history of British publishing and of the dust jacket. Earlier jackets typically consisted of lettering and an illustrated design based on the blocking of the binding. Only two years earlier, the jacket for Methuen's 1913 edition of John Oxenham's Bees in Amber bore the jingle: "This outer wrap is only meant / To keep my coat from detriment. / Please take it off, and let me show / The better one I wear below." Their "Popular Novels" series also included D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and P. G. Wodehouse's Something New. This copy is in the first state, with the comma after "Essex Street" on the title page. The novel was first published in the US earlier the same year. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom red quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Tiny bumps to cloth at extremities; dust jacket slightly rubbed, extremities lightly worn with short split to front flap fold, overall remarkably bright, flaps without price as issued: a fine copy in near-fine dust jacket. Cagle A19b(1); Keating 113; Wise 25.
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- Place of Publication London: Methuen & Co. Ltd,
- Date Published 1915
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Victory An Island Tale
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Methuen & Co, 1926. Hardcover. Good. 1926. 15th Edition. 328 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Markings to some pages. Pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Staining overall.
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Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1924. Tenth Edition. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light soiling to pastedowns. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Light tanning to spine and edges. Notable water staining to surfaces causing scuffed discolouration to cloth. Scuffing and dark stained marking overall. Book is visible forward leaning.
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Victory An Island Tale
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York , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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The Book Society, 1952. Introduction by V S Pritchett. 323pp + list of Conrad's Works. Beige cloth boards with brown spine with gilt title. Decorated endpapers. A couple of very small spots on foredge, otherwise clean.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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VICTORY, AN ISLAND TALE.
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Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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Methuen, 1924-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 2.0305 cent in x 18.0203 cent in x 12.6904 cent in. 11th edition taped spine cover on blue cloth
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Victory- An Island Tale
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N.Y: Doubleday Page & Co., 1915. 462 pages. Blue cloth binding. Gilded lettering and design on cover and spine. Top and bottom edges of spine are creased and frayed. All 4 corners of binding are lightly frayed. All around a great and very interesting book in good condition. Pictures upon request.. Cloth. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover.
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VICTORY, An Island Tale
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This is Joseph Conrad's Victory, aka Victory, An Island Tale, which was originally published in 1915. This book was his first success. It has been adapted into films five times, most recently in 1995. Harold Pinter wrote a screenplay for it in 1982; the film was not made but, in 2015, the BBC adapted that screenplay for radio.Story: Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life. Marked by a violent and tragic…
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Victory An Island Tale
by Joseph Conrad
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Paperback / softback. New.
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Victory An Island Tale
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Penguin Books 1963. Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs0
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Victory. An Island Tale
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J M Dent, 1965, Everyman Library edition,. 1965. Soft cover. paperback, 412pp, edges browning, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, covers browning, no creasing on spine, Good condition. .
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