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Lot Description

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Arrow of Gold. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919.

8vo. Original gilt-lettered green cloth (spine sunned); in unclipped dust jacket (some restoration at extreme ends, a small area in facsimile on rear panel and near head of spine, flap folds and part of spine reinforced, light soiling to extremities).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, the state with the "A" present in the headline on p.67 (no priority established). IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET [Cagle "a"]. "Although not ranking as a Conrad princeps, the First English Edition...is yet a desirable book to the reader as well the collector. Its text embodies certain corrections which, though duly forwarded to America, did not arrive there in time for incorporation in the original edition of the novel" (Wise). RARE: According to online auction records there are no examples of this variant dust jacket. Cagle A38; Smith 22; Wise 41.

Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie

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