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The Secret Agent. A Drama in Three Acts
by Conrad, Joseph
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Boards backed with parchment, uncut and unopened. Fine copy with just a touch of toning to spine ends. In blue dustjacket
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1923. First edition thus. Number 867 of 1000 copies, signed by Conrad. Frontispiece portrait. [x], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Boards backed with parchment, uncut and unopened. Fine copy with just a touch of toning to spine ends. In blue dustjacket. First edition thus. Number 867 of 1000 copies, signed by Conrad. Frontispiece portrait. [x], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. For this edition the third act was subsumed as scene three of the second act, and some dialogue and stage directions were deleted by Conrad. Smith, p. 112; Cagle A54b; Keating 79
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 303619
- Title
- The Secret Agent. A Drama in Three Acts
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Frontispiece portrait. [x], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Boards backed with parchment, uncut and unopened. Fine copy with just a touch of toning to spine ends. In blue dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus. Number 867 of 1000 copies, signed by Conrad
- Publisher
- Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- British
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Unopened
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- Parchment
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- Spine
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