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Price: US$3.75 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: AK4 - Book has wear on the covers spine and front and some edges, wrinkling on the top and bottom spine and corners, tear and loose on the hinge of the title page, wrinkling on the top right corner of some inside pages, discoloration, and shelf wear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold a Story Between Two Notes. Doubleday, Page, & Co., New York, 1919.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: Second state of the first edition: appar- ently on two lines on page 5; blue cloth with Country Life Press logo on last page .Ex-library with minimal markings, weak front hinge, lacking a dustjacket. Still a good reading copy.
Seller: Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Although dated 1919 to both title and copyright pages, with no later dates, this is the "second state" or "second issue," with text corrected on page 5, line 16, to read ". . . arrived furnished with proper credentials and who apparently . . ." The words "Milford House" are written to blank FFE in an age-appropriate ink. This would appear to identify a place rather than a person, and there are of course a number of '"Milford Houses" in the English-speaking world, from the 19th Century former seat of the Mc Crum family in Armagh to the historic Marshall M. Milford House in Attica, Indiana, with many a commercial eating establishment of that name scattered in between. This copy is "good-plus" with a minor (quarter-inch) spine lean. 385 pp.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. The Arrow of Gold. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1919.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/no dust jacket. Light wear to spine ends. Former owners name and gift inscription on free front endpaper--also has a small unobtrusive book store sticker. Nice bright copy. First edition hardcover. Second state.
Seller: Blue Moon Books, Stevens Point, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, Second Issue With Proper Points. Bound In Blue Cloth With Blue Lettering In A Gilt Field. Gilt Lettering On The Spine. Signature (Not The Author's) In Pencil On The Ffep. Moderate Edge Wear With Tanned Edges. Top Edges Dust Soiled.
Seller: Granada Bookstore, IOBA, Woodlawn, IL, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1919.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt title panel and decoration on front cover; light rubbing to tips and spine ends; notes by previous bookseller lightly penciled on front pastedown; a nice clean, tight copy.
Seller: Highfield Books Online, Westbrook, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue cloth, gilt, 385 pages. Considerable wear to spine ends and corners, head of spine is frayed. Foxing to endpapers and some interior pages. Binding and hinges still strong. First printing with "credentials and apparently" (no "who") on lines 15 & 16 of page 5. The publisher lists 20 titles opposite the title page.
Seller: Whiting Books, Fulshear, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 x 8 inches high. 385 pages. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. 1st ed. 2nd issue--P. 5 line 16 "with proper credentials and who.", p. 15 line 24 "(almost complete strangers to each other)". Condition of book is GOOD; Light wear to spine edges & ends, white envelope flap pasted to front pastedown, previous owner's name on ffep, front hinge starting, written in ink on rear endpaper "1st Am. ed. issued prior to Engel Ed., A.L.S of John Cowper Powys." below which is pasted a white envelope, which is empty. Some pages have a light dampstain in the top margin, does not affect text area. Fiction RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold, A Story Between Two Notes. Doubleday, Page, New York, 1919.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo., 385 pp. First printing, with "proper credentials and apparently" line 16, page 5. Owners name and book plate front paste-down only marks in book, binding solid. Covers show minor shelf wear, small spot (paint) on front cover, lettering on spine somewhat faded. Book condition Good+. Edition: 1st. Binding: Hardback
Seller: Parker's Rare Books, Ontario, WI, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. Doubleday, New York, 1919.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Spine-ends bumped with slight wear. inside front hinge cracked. text clean. 'credentials apparently' on page 5. 1st issue. Good / no DJ blue cloth with gilt titles light wear at corners.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. Doubleday, New York, 1919.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The leather cover is cracked in several places. It must be handled gently.
Seller: The Book Lovers, Philo, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. A very nice copy in collectible, Near Fine condition. Original blue cloth, with gilt-decorated front cover, still bright and shiny. Spine also gilt-lettered, still distinct but less bright. Only light rubbing to the corners and spine ends. No owner's name or bookplate. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Inner hinges are perfectly sound. True first of this title, preceding the London edition by 4 months. See Keating, p. 278: "This edition was published on April 10, 1919, four months before the first English edition, which appeared in August." This is the First Issue with all distinguishing points: e.g. 20 titles are listed opposite the title page [instead of 21 later]; "credentials and apparently" on page 5, line 16 [subsequent issues were changed to "credentials and who."]; "almost absolute strangers" on page 15, line 24 [later "almost complete strangers"]. This copy also has all other correct first issue points (on pp. 55, 124, and 248) as detailed in the Conrad bibliographies by George T. Keating and Walter E. Smith. Keating 126. Smith 22. Wise 40. Schwartz p. 17. According to Keating: "The great thing to bear in mind about THE ARROW OF GOLD is that it is profoundly autobiographical. Conrad recreated in its pages, nor alone the spirit, but many of the actual scenes and figures of those early days in Marseilles when he first tasted the true quality of life THE ARROW OF GOLD, in short, is a slice out of Conrad's own past, made magical by distance, by the memory of his vanished youth, and by the figure of Rita, his first love. Above all, by the figure of Rita." - (A CONRAD MEMORIAL LIBRARY, p.273). First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket. 8vo. (vi), 386pp.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, New York, 1919.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Neat bookplate and blindstamp of the "Hotel Puritan," front hinge cracked, moderate rubbing and edgewear, very good, lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. THE ARROW OF GOLD. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1919.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 x 7 1/2 inches. 385 pages. First printing with line 16 p. 5 reading "had arrived furnished with proper credential and appar-" (no 'who', which was corrected in subsequent printings). Condition is Very Good; Very light wear to spine ends, front spine edge and corners, top corner of front cover lightly bumped, very light foxing on last two pages of text, otherwise very clean, light stains on edges of text block, does not affect pages. RGR
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. Doubleday Page, Garden City, 1919.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, blue cloth; lightly rubbed; spine dulled; bookplate. New York: Doubleday Page, 1919. First Edition. First issue. Published 4 months before the English Edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. Doubleday, New York, 1919.
Price: US$76.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, 385pp, expertly re-bound by Stephen Conway in quarter blue morocco, attractive and vibrant new marbled boards, title label inset on morocco, finely bound, very good condition, Doubleday, New York, 1919.
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, New York, 1919.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue with correction made to lines 16 and 17 to state correctly "credentials and who apparently". Decorative blue cloth stamped in gilt. Contemporary owner's name inked on front fly, modest edgewear, a very good copy but lacking a dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CONRAD, JOSEPH. THE ARROW OF GOLD. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY PAGE & CO. PUB 1919., 1919.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: VG/NONE. FIRST ISSUE WITH "CREDENTIALS AND APPARENTLY" IN LINES 16 AND 17 ON PAGE 5 BOOK IS VERY NICE WITH SPINE GILT TITLES DULLED BUT VERY VISIBLE. A NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. Doubleday Page, Garden City, 1919.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, blue cloth; lightly rubbed. New York: Doubleday Page, 1919. First Edition. First issue. Published 4 months before the English Edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition navy blue boards with gilt front cover nautical decoration and gild spine lettering. Includes Dedication. A thin light scuff mark in the gilt rectangular block coloring, and the spine edges are lightly rubbed. A vintage one inch Brentano's sticker is affixed to the rear inner lower cover. All pages are in fine condition and the spine is tight and fairly square. (see photographs). First American Edition with the correct points, to wit: 1) On page five, line 16 states (without the word "who) ". arrived furnished with proper credentials and appar-"; and 2) the page to the left of the full title page, entitled: "Books By the Same Author" lists 20 titles. "Reflecting Conrad's genius for narrative that focuses on the quest for inner truths, The Arrow of Gold is an exploration of the dangerous appetites of men and of human vulnerability, as well as a profound meditation on the emotional boundary between people. Boasting a case of extraordinary and eccentric personalities, including the heroine Ms. Rita, this is a story of adventure on the high seas, of the revelation of love, of the crushing weight of loss, and of freedom found in the recklessness of unadorned sincerity. During the Carlist war of the early 1870s, a young sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain. The Carlists use the eager youth's intense attraction to the sea to persuade him to run perilous enterprises for their cause, ventures he later learns have been financed by the beautiful mistress and heiress of a rich man's fortune. When he fall in love with her, he finds himself moved absolutely by this discovery, despite the fact that she is unable to return his love fully. In the end he is left alone with his first love, the sea, his brief time with the mysterious Ms. Rita marking a tumultuous awakening to a life of passion, the desolation that hides in its shadow, and the possibility of rebirth in its wake. The Arrow of Gold was critically acclaimed when it first appeared in 1919 and is still considered to be amont the best of Conrad's later works." - from goodreads dot com.
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1919.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with "credentials and apparently" (no "who") at line 16-17 on page 5, and with 20 titles listed opposite the title page (instead of 21 in later issues). The book is bound in the original publisher's blue cloth with some wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates. This copy is SIGNED by "Cristopher Morley" on the front endpaper who writes "Many writers have followed the sea, loved it, cursed it, aye, and fought it. But Joseph Conrad seems to me the one who very nearly caught it. C.M. Christopher Morley was the author of over 40 books, many of them published by Doubleday. He was a friend and admirer of Conrad and was one of the founders of the Saturday Review of Literature. The handwriting of Morley in this book resembles his style and in the pen drag of connection of words as in this quote "to me" and "the one" fits other examples of Morley's writing. A unique and collectable copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes. Doubleday, Page, New York, 1919.
Price: US$599.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original blue cloth., First Edition, First Issue preceding the British edition. Very Good. Lacking the Dust Jacket. Together with London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919. Original green cloth. First English Edition, First State with the “A” in the running head on p. 67 intact. The English edition includes corrections that did not arrive on time for the earlier American edition. Highly autobiographical and, for a minority, one of their favorite Conrad novels. Lacking the Dust Jacket, Very Good.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.