The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions.
by Conrad, Joseph
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Company, 1906. First British edition of Conrad's first volume of autobiographical non-fiction. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition. First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad's two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book "a very intimate revelation. . . . I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour's confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible, surviving the test of disillusion, defying the disenchantment that lurks in every day of a strenuous life; went on full of love's delight and love's anguish, facing them in open-eyed exultation without bitterness and without repining, from the first hour to the last.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55033
- Title
- The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions.
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Joseph Conrad First Edition, The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions. First Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Autobiography;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...