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Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Secret Agent. London: Methuen & Co., 1907.
8vo. 40 pp. publisher's advertisements. Publisher's red cloth gilt (toning); later quarter calf slipcase.
FIRST EDITION of Conrad's work, dedicated to H.G. Wells and inspired by the 1894 death of French anarchist Martial Bourdin, who was killed when explosives he was preparing to detonate in the Greenwich Observatory detonated prematurely. Smith 13.
The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
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