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The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
by Joseph Conrad
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/New
- Seller
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
About this Item: Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1920. First/First Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Book is in very good + condition with slightly faded spine lettering with a very fine priced (2.00) facsimile dust jacket. Book is finely bound in bright navy blue textured cloth with a very fine gilt blind stamp on the front. There is a fine book plate and a Christmas inscription on the front paste down and the FFE. Dust jacket is flawless. " Into the midst of Captain Tom Lingard's lawless affair of honour involving the throne of a Malayan prince, blundered the English yacht, fatefully stranded in the midst of what was to be ht dark theatre of war. Of the three white passengers only the owner's wife understood the situation and Lingard. Integrity, the duty of a white to his countrymen in the South Seas, the never broken word of King Tom to a native. unguessable is the inevitable climax of this rescue." This book is a notable Conrad collectible in collectible condition. Protected in Mylar.
Synopsis
Civil war rages between the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tim Wingard sides with the Rajah Hassim. But as is the case with so much in the Far East, nothing is quite straightforward and events unfold by indirection.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13182
- Title
- The Rescue
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- Format/Binding
- Bound in Blue cloth over printed blue boards with a fine gilt blindstamp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, page and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- First Edition/ First Printing
- Size
- 8vo
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About the Seller
Oshtemo Book Sellers
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Kalamazoo, Michigan
About Oshtemo Book Sellers
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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