1915. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Original blue limp leather decorated in gilt.

First Edition, second printing, issued about 30 days after the first. (The first printing was in navy blue cloth, and this much-scarcer second, priced a bit higher, was in this "Deep Sea" format of blue limp leather.) This is a good-to-very good copy (some wear, especially at the edges of the spine). Supino A19.2.0 (this copy); Cagle A19a(2) ("no copy located"). Provenance: small flyleaf blind-stamp of Lindmark's Book Shop of Poughkeepsie NY -- which in 1963 made international news when the State of NY evicted the business (for a highway bypass), and 131,000 books were stacked on the sidewalk (to be taken by people, to be rained on, and ultimately to be incinerated); paste-down bookplate of Dorothy [Neal] and [Luther] Harris Hiscock (1893-1975) of New York State; front free endpaper verso bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino (loosely inserted are his notes regarding collation etc.).

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Bookseller: Sumner & Stillman (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 15398
Title: VICTORY. An Island Tale
Author: Conrad, Joseph
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Date Published: 1915
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction (Early 20th Century); Maritime;

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...