Lot 74

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale. London: Methuen & Co., 1907.

Status:

Closed

Estimate: $400 - $600

Estimate$400 – $600

Status

Closed

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale. London: Methuen & Co., 1907.

8vo. 40pp. publisher's catalogue at end. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Provenance: The Galginani Library (booksellers' ticket at foot of pastedown).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "be be" on last line of p.117 and catalogue dated September 1907. One of the "earliest and best novel portraying the character and fate of a double agent." (Barzun & Taylor). ibid 903; Cagle A12a(1); Connolly 15 ("Conrad's greatest heroine.").

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