By Joseph Conrad
London   T. Fisher Unwin
8.5" by 5.5" x [1], 2-336pp
The first edition of Joseph Conrad's lesser known novel concerning a love triangle during the Third Carlist War.
By Joseph Conrad

1919 The Arrow of Gold

London   T. Fisher Unwin
8.5" by 5.5" x [1], 2-336pp
The first edition of Joseph Conrad's lesser known novel concerning a love triangle during the Third Carlist War.
£60.00
: 0.75kgs / : 792F29

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Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first UK edition of this novel from Joseph Conrad, the influential proto-modernist author of 'Heart of Darkness'. This work was originally titled 'The Laugh', and published serially in Lloyd's Magazine from December 1918 to February 1920.

Present here in the first state, with running head intact to page 67.

Set in Marseilles during the Third Carlist War, the principal theme of the novel is a love triangle between the central characters.

With the contemporary owner's bookplate of F. R. Kittermaster to the front pastedown, and Kittermaster's inscription, dated September 1919, to the front free endpaper.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, with discolouration to back strip. Minor marks to tail of front board. Contemporary bookplate to front pastedown, and inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.

Very Good

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