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FON on front endpaper dated 1924.
Cover has wear and bumping, especially on top and bottom of spine. Significant cracking on front hinge. Pages are age tanned.
Synopsis
The six stories in this volume are the result of some three or four years of occasional work. The dates of their writing are far apart, their origins are various. None of them are connected directly with personal experiences. In all of them the facts are inherently true, by which I mean that they are not only possible but that they have actually happened. For instance, the last story in the volume, the one I call Pathetic, whose first title is Il Conde (misspelt by-the-by) is an almost verbatim transcript of the tale told me by a very charming old gentleman whom I met in Italy. I don't mean to say it is only that. Anybody can see that it is something more than a verbatim report, but where he left off and where I began must be left to the acute discrimination of the reader who may be interested in the problem.
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Details
- Bookseller
- PWK Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- G28
- Title
- A Set of Six
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- Format/Binding
- Leather limp bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- PWK Stories;
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- Limp Bound
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- Gilt
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- Age Tanned
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.