The Secret Agent A Drama In Three Acts by Conrad Joseph - 1923

London, Privately Printed For Subscribers Only By T. Werner Laurie, Ltd. 1923. Conrad's working of his 1907 novel into a play. Beautifully printed on fine paper. Hard Cover. 4 leaves, 185 pages; 23 cm. No limitation statement/ no signature. Vg/ dj worn, spine detached but saved. Stock#NS0157.

T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Rebound in full, recent leather with new end papers. Not signed, and with no limitation page. Internally, there is age-related foxing and edge wear, but the pages are otherwise complete and legible. The binding is secure. In good condition indeed, considering the age of the book. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by T. Werner Laurie, 1923. Limited ed. Cloth. Good (no DJ). 8vo, quarter vellum, cloth over boards, 185 pp. Edition of 1000 copies (but this copy has no statement of limitation and is not signed). Covers soiled and stained, worn at edges and corners, with several tiny bore holes to spine; foxing and sunning to page edges and endpapers; interior otherwise unmarked and clean, with many pages unopened.

London: T Werner Laurie Ltd , 1923. 3/4 morocco. Fine. 185p octavo, a fine copy bound in 3/4 blue morocco and blue cloth. Appears to be one of the signed limiuted copies produced by this publisher. This copy without the signed limitation page and bound differently. Conrad Bibliography lists this title as a vellum bound with a signed limitation page.

London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, 1923. Very good with spine darkened, some spotting to binding. Original Japanese vellum backed sage green boards, paper spine label, edges untrimmed, mostly unopened.. Signed by Conrad on the limitation page. Limited edition, this being number 581 of 1000 copies. 8vo. [vi], 185pp.; with frontispiece portrait from photograph. Cagle A54b.

London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1923. First edition thus. Number 347 of 1000 copies, signed by Conrad. [x], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Boards backed with parchment, uncut and unopened. Fine copy with just a touch of toning to spine ends. In soiled dustjacket. First edition thus. Number 347 of 1000 copies, signed by Conrad. [x], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Conrad first dramatized The Secret Agent in 1920 in four acts, and in 1921, 53 copies were privately printed in Canterbury by H. J. Goulden. The play was produced in London in 1922. This version followed that, and was later republished in 1934 by Methuen and Co. in Three Plays. Smith, p. 112; Cagle A54

London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1923. First edition, limited issue. Number 245 of 1,000 SIGNED, numbered and specially bound copies. Play based on his 1907 book of the same name. Spine a little tanned otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket with internal archival-tape repair to split at hinge.

London: [Privately printed by] T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1923. Second English edition, for subscribers only; one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Conrad, this being number 127. 185 pp. 8vo. Light blue cloth boards, white spine with white spine label pasted down. Signed in black ink by Conrad on colophon page. In dust jacket with pasted down label on spine, tear on dust jacket along top front at spine, toning along spine, and bumped foot of spine; overall a near fine copy. Second English edition, for subscribers only; one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Conrad, this being number 127. 185 pp. 8vo. SIGNED. This was Conrad's dramatization of his 1907 novel of the same name, preceded by a 52-copy private issue (...in Four Acts; Canterbury, 1922). For this signed edition it was decided to combine the shorter third act into the second act (as Act II, Scene III). Supino B2.12.0

London: privately printed for subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd,, 1923. First edition thus of Conrad's dramatisation of his 1907 novel, number 285 of 1,000 copies signed by the author, and very scarce retaining the dust jacket in such nice condition. "The Secret Agent received a high-profile, if short, run at the Ambassadors Theatre in November 1922. Although some acquaintances of Conrad - including Hastings and Galsworthy - could be harsh in their condemnation of Conrad's theatrical naïveté, others were more supportive. Particularly noteworthy in this regard is Arnold Bennett, who believed that The Secret Agent as a play was 'the best I have seen for a very, very long time, and by a long way the best'. As for its disappointing run, Bennett contended that the play was simply ahead of its time for a London theatre scene fed on dishonest pap" (Hand, Joseph Conrad in Context, p. 94). In 1921 Conrad had a piece entitled "The Secret Agent. Drama in Four Acts" privately printed in a run of 52… Read More

London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1923. First edition thus. Number 867 of 1000 copies, signed by Conrad. Frontispiece portrait. [x], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Boards backed with parchment, uncut and unopened. Fine copy with just a touch of toning to spine ends. In blue dustjacket. First edition thus. Number 867 of 1000 copies, signed by Conrad. Frontispiece portrait. [x], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. For this edition the third act was subsumed as scene three of the second act, and some dialogue and stage directions were deleted by Conrad. Smith, p. 112; Cagle A54b; Keating 79