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Conrad, Joseph; Hueffer, Ford M.. The Inheritors. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st U.S. Edition. Hard bound. No dust jacket. Tan Boards. Dedication page reads "To Borys and Christina". Boards show some wear, otherwise in very good condition.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Published Issue (Second Issue Overall), Second Issue Binding, Second Issue Binding without gilt sky. Octavo. Illustrated cloth over boards. Good, spine darkened and stained, rear cover stained, front cover spotted, spine ends and corners bumped, lacks front free end paper and half title page, lacks rear free end paper.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slight rubbing to pictorial cloth, spine a bit darkened, but generally bright. Slight scattered foxing. First edition first (published) issue (second issue overall) with the dedication leaf tipped in with the correct spelling of Borys and the sky on the cover in gold. This is the first US edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Inventory No: 044657.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph; Ford M. Hueffer. The Inheritors. McClure, Phillips & Company, New York, 1901.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second State of the First American edition with the corrected dedication page. Spien age darkened and spotted. Front cover bright, but with spitting around the edges. Top and bottom page edges age spotted. Spine slightly slanted. Minor age spotting to pastedowns and endpapers, text clean. Previous bookselling label on rear pastedown. Ships same or next business day well protected in a box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bumped corners. Darkened spine. 1/2 inch crease along left side of front cover. Rubbing and two small spots on spine. Slight wear at extremities. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Country Bookshop [Member VABA], Plainfield, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, First Published Issue, Second Issue Overall, with Borys in the dedication. Octavo. Illustrated cloth over boards, first issue binding with gilt sky, edges untrimmed except for top. Very good, no dust jacket, light wear at spine ends, spine darkened, binding foxed.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue with dedication reading "To Borys and Christina" instead of "To Boys and Christina" [vi], 324 pp. 1 vols. 8vo (190 x 132 mm). Keating 31; Cagle A6a(2) Publisher's beige cloth pictorially stamped in red, black and gilt with upper cover with illustration depicting a man and a woman with view of Canterbury in the background. Covers a bit darkened and foxed, foxing to preliniary and terminal leaves, in slipcase [vi], 324 pp. 1 vols. 8vo (190 x 132 mm) First edition, second issue with dedication reading "To Borys and Christina" instead of "To Boys and Christina".
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph; Hueffer, Ford M.. The Inheritors. McClure, Phillips & Co, NY, 1901.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first published issue (second issue overall) with the dedication leaf a cancel and dedication corrected to read "Borys". In first issue binding with sky colored gilt on the decorated front cover. A particularly scarce Conrad work, his first and only foray into the realm of science fiction, co-authored with Ford Hueffer, who would become better known as Ford Maddox Ford. A tight copy witn the gilt sky bright with a small rubbed spot from which the gilt has not been lost. There is a smudge and small spot to the rear cover and the spine strip, while not rubbed, has considerable darkened spotting. Withal, quite an acceptable collectors copy of a very desirable title.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Title in orange and black. 324pp. 8vo, rebound in 1/2 yellow morocco over marbled boards with raised bands and black leather label; original pictorial wrappers tipped-in. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901. A fine copy.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-323 [324] + [32]-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original pictorial yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, top edge untrimmed, other edges rough trimmed. First British edition, first issue, first binding. 1520 copies printed (utilizing the plates of the McClure, Phillips edition) of which this is one of 1000 in the first binding (top edge not trimmed; publisher's catalogue inserted at rear; "W H" bracketing windmill on spine panel). This copy does not have the dedication leaf later inserted in a few copies. The only work in the science fiction genre by either Conrad or Ford. Earth is invaded by the Dimensionists, an advanced humanoid race from earth's future, who co-exist with the present in an alternate universe on a different plane in time. A remarkable book that can be read as a probing social satire or as provocative science fiction. See Elaine L. Kleiner, "Joseph Conrad's Forgotten Role in the Emergence of Science Fiction," Extrapolation, 15 (December 1973), 25-34. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-276. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 460. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 186. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 27. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 57. Bleiler (1978), p. 48. Reginald 03318. Cagle A6a(3), binding a. Wise 9. Harvey A9b. Publisher's "presentation copy" embossed stamp on title leaf. Some soiling to cloth, lower corner tips lightly bruised, minor foxing to endpapers, largely along gutter margins, two small, faint tape ghosts on each free endpaper, a tight, very good copy. Externally bright and attractive; the cover soiling is less than is usually encountered on this book. (#80407)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-323 [324] + [32]-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original pictorial yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, all edges untrimmed. First British edition, first issue, first binding. 1520 copies printed (utilizing the plates of the McClure, Phillips edition) of which this is one of 1000 in the first binding (top edge not trimmed; publisher's catalogue inserted at rear; "W H" bracketing windmill on spine panel). This copy does not have the dedication leaf later inserted in a few copies. The only work in the science fiction genre by either Conrad or Ford. Earth is invaded by the Dimensionists, an advanced humanoid race from Earth's future, who coexist with the present in an alternate universe on a different plane in time. A remarkable book that can be read as a probing social satire or as provocative science fiction. See Elaine L. Kleiner, "Joseph Conrad's Forgotten Role in the Emergence of Science Fiction," Extrapolation, 15 (December 1973), 25-34. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-276. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 460. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 186. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 27. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 57. Bleiler (1978), p. 48. Reginald 03318. Cagle A6a(3), binding a. Wise 9. Harvey A9b. Private owner's bookplate affixed to the front paste-down. Shallow fraying to cloth at spine ends, some dust soiling to cloth, short tear in rear free endpaper professionally repaired, a very good copy. (#158279)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.