TALES OF UNREST
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.Sumner & Stillman [ABAA]
AbeBooks seller since June 23, 1999
Condition: Used
US$ 450.00
Quantity: 1 available
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Original tan cloth decorated in brown. First Edition of Conrad's fourth book and his first collection of short stories (including "An Outpost of Progress," a Congo tale along the same vein as his later "Heart of Darkness"). This was issued about ten days before the London edition, and consisted of 1,250 copies. TALES OF UNREST was not a big seller in America: Scribner did not print a second and third impression (250 copies each) until 1906 and 1912; after the success of CHANCE in 1914, they printed 250 + 260 more copies in 1915, before selling the rights, the plates, and the unbound sheets to Doubleday Page the following year. We consider this one of the scarcer Conrad American editions; when it does turn up the volume's spine is usually severely darkened. This is a near-fine copy (spine design slightly dull, but not as bad as usual); the volume is otherwise essentially without wear. Supino A4.1.0; Cagle A4b. Provenance: discreet bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino.…
Seller Inventory # 15276
Bibliographic details
- Title
- TALES OF UNREST
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Publication year
- 1898
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction (19th Century), Maritime
Sumner & Stillman [ABAA]
Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
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We deal in literary first editions of the Nineteenth, and early Twentieth, centuries -- writers such as Conrad, Dickens, Doyle, Hardy, James, Kipling, London, Stevenson, Trollope, Twain, Verne, Wilde, etc.
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Sumner & Stillman [ABAA]
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