first edition
1920
by Conrad, Joseph
1920. London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1920. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, with dust jacket.
First English Trade Edition (issued after the American edition and also after a 40-copy private issue of the English galley proofs). Begun in 1896, and in effect completing the trilogy begun with ALMAYER'S FOLLY and AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS, "THE RESCUE was Conrad's albatross, the book which hung about his neck from the beginning of his writing career almost until the end of his life" [Cagle]. This copy is in a slightly variant binding -- with the front cover blindstamped device, but with the spine lettering in pale blue (or white?), rather than in gilt (there is also a secondary binding with black lettering and border, and with no front cover device.) The volume's condition is fine; the pictorial jacket, which unlike that of THE ROVER does not often turn up in presentable condition, is very good-plus -- with little edge-wear (remarkable since the jacket stands somewhat taller than the volume), but with its spine and some edges darkened, and cellotape reinforcement behind the spine-head. Supino A22.7.0 (no mention of this binding with pale blue lettering); Cagle A49b(2). (Inventory #: 15670)
First English Trade Edition (issued after the American edition and also after a 40-copy private issue of the English galley proofs). Begun in 1896, and in effect completing the trilogy begun with ALMAYER'S FOLLY and AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS, "THE RESCUE was Conrad's albatross, the book which hung about his neck from the beginning of his writing career almost until the end of his life" [Cagle]. This copy is in a slightly variant binding -- with the front cover blindstamped device, but with the spine lettering in pale blue (or white?), rather than in gilt (there is also a secondary binding with black lettering and border, and with no front cover device.) The volume's condition is fine; the pictorial jacket, which unlike that of THE ROVER does not often turn up in presentable condition, is very good-plus -- with little edge-wear (remarkable since the jacket stands somewhat taller than the volume), but with its spine and some edges darkened, and cellotape reinforcement behind the spine-head. Supino A22.7.0 (no mention of this binding with pale blue lettering); Cagle A49b(2). (Inventory #: 15670)
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