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TYPHOON and Other Stories
by Conrad, Joseph
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- first
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1903. London: William Heinemann, 1903. 2 pp preliminary ads. Original grey cloth with life preserver in gilt.
First Edition, which consisted of 1500 copies for the domestic market plus 1500 for the colonial market (same binding, different preliminaries). In addition to the title tale, the "other stories" are "Amy Foster," "Falk" and "To-morrow." "Typhoon" had been published in New York in 1902, prior to Conrad's final revisions that are reflected in the text of the English edition; the other three appear in book form for the first time here. This is a "pure" domestic copy, with the domestic half-title and title leaves; demand from British booksellers was so great that the binder subsequently had to create "hybrid" copies, transferring colonial copies to the domestic market and back again. It is in Supino's binding "A" (with a cover height of 195mm , only the top edge trimmed, and with 110mm between "Conrad" and "Heinemann" on the spine); this copy does NOT include the 32-page ad catalogue that is present in some but not all copies. This volume is in very good-plus condition (some rubbing at the extremities, slight cracking of the endpapers). Supino A8.14.0 (this copy); Cagle A8b(1). Provenance: discreet bookplate of Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino.
First Edition, which consisted of 1500 copies for the domestic market plus 1500 for the colonial market (same binding, different preliminaries). In addition to the title tale, the "other stories" are "Amy Foster," "Falk" and "To-morrow." "Typhoon" had been published in New York in 1902, prior to Conrad's final revisions that are reflected in the text of the English edition; the other three appear in book form for the first time here. This is a "pure" domestic copy, with the domestic half-title and title leaves; demand from British booksellers was so great that the binder subsequently had to create "hybrid" copies, transferring colonial copies to the domestic market and back again. It is in Supino's binding "A" (with a cover height of 195mm , only the top edge trimmed, and with 110mm between "Conrad" and "Heinemann" on the spine); this copy does NOT include the 32-page ad catalogue that is present in some but not all copies. This volume is in very good-plus condition (some rubbing at the extremities, slight cracking of the endpapers). Supino A8.14.0 (this copy); Cagle A8b(1). Provenance: discreet bookplate of Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino.
Synopsis
In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival. 'Falk', the companion sea-story, contrasts, as Conrad once put it, 'common sentimentalism with the frank standpoint of a more or less primitive man', a man with a conscience, however, about the girl he desires. In one of the 'land-stories' Conrad explores the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England; in the other, the plight of a woman ironically trapped by the unwitting alliance of two retired widowers - each blind in his own way.
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- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15298
- Title
- TYPHOON and Other Stories
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- Maritime; Nautical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction (Early 20th Century); Maritime;
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