Search Results: the secret agent by conrad joseph 1857 1924

London: Methuen and Co., 1907. [Landmark Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 442; [1], imprint; [1], blank; [40], advertisement catalogue dated September 1907. Bound in publisher's burgundy coloured cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Edges of text block toned/browned, binding a little sunned to the spine. A very good copy of a Conrad high spot. A bleak and darkly comic story of spies, terrorists, anarchists and agents provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th century. It is considered one of the first modern novels to deal with the subjects of terrorism and espionage and is a cornerstone of detection and spy fiction. The novel formed the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film, 'Sabotage', and was remade in 1996 (as 'The Secret Agent') starring Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette and Gérard Depardieu. Wise: A Conrad Library, p.12. Queen's Quorum. Hubin: Crime Fiction IV, p332.

London: Methuen, 1907. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. First Impression (one of only 2500 copies), First Issue ("be be" on final line of p. 117, six additional text error as noted by Smith, and publisher's catalogue dated September 1907), of the "earliest and best novel portraying the character and fate of a double agent." (Barzun & Taylor) Crown 8vo: [6],442,[2],40pp. Publisher's ruby-red bold-ribbed cloth, spine lettered and ornamented in gold, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; bookplate of A. Beresford Ryley to front paste-down. Foxing to front blank, small gutter stain (not affecting text) to pp. 212-17, faint rubbing to spine edges, else an excellent example and scarce such. Keating 73-74. Wise 17. Connolly 15 ("Conrad's greatest heroine.").Cagle A12a(1). Barzun & Taylor 903. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Ehrsam, p. 304. Smith 13. Modern Library 100, 46. A tale of anarchists in late nineteenth-century London, which originally appeared serially in Ridgeway's Weekly. "The plot centres… Read More

New York, NY: published by Doubleday, Page and Company for WM. H. Wise and Co., 1924. [Complete Works] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Complete in 26 volumes, bound as 13. Octavo (21 x 15 x 68cm). Recently bound in tan half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to red labels, further gilt decoration to spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Crisp, clean copies, presented in an attractive new leather binding. This edition includes the author's new preface for each title, dated 1920, as well as two more volumes than the previous 'Complete Works' collection.

New York, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1920. [Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 24 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16cm). Frontispiece photogravure to volume one, vignette 'Sundial' illustration to title page of each volume, which features text printed in two colours. Handsomely bound in half dark blue oasis morocco with gilt titles and gilt raised bands to spines, blue cloth boards, edges untrimmed. A fine set, inside and out. Includes the original four-page synopsis/announcement, printed in red and black, folded and loosely inserted. Limited to 735 copies only of which this is number 493. Signed in volume 1 by the author. The English equivalent was published in 20 volumes. This edition includes the author's new preface for each title, and includes the two volumes Life and Letters.