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Lot 74
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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Lot Description
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.").
Selections from the Library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon
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