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The Secret Agent. A Drama in Three Acts
by Conrad, Joseph
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Boards backed with parchment, uncut and unopened. Fine copy with just a touch of toning to spine ends. In soiled dustjacket
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
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
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 261631
- Title
- The Secret Agent. A Drama in Three Acts
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- [x], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Boards backed with parchment, uncut and unopened. Fine copy with just a touch of toning to spine ends. In soiled dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus. Number 347 of 1000 copies, signed by Conrad
- Publisher
- Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- British
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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