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Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 182 Pp. First State With "Mcclure" At Base Of Spine. An Odd Example, Lacking Front Endpaper, No Illustrations Or Trace Of Their Removal Although Usual List Of Illustrations Present. With The Publisher's 4 15/16" X 4 7/8" Broadside Advertising This Book ($1.25), Including The 25 Line Publisher's Blurb And Information About The Book.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. A Set of Six. Doubleday, Page & Co, 1908.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 1908, 2nd Edition, 3rd Printing Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Green soft leather boards and binding with gilded title and author. Boards in very poor condition as they are worn across all edges and on the board itself. Binding is very worn, although one can still read the author and title. First American Edition of this collection of six short stories. The English edition had been published in 1908, and in the same year one of the stories, "The Duel," was published alone by McClure of New York (as "The Point of Honor"). A few months later McClure went under and was bought out by Doubleday -- but since Doubleday could not acquire the copyright to most of the other five tales (because they had already been published in England), he was in no hurry to publish this volume -- until the success of CHANCE in 1913 prompted him to do so (hence the seven-year delay of the American A SET OF SIX). All of this undoubtedly prompted a small printing, making this one of the scarcer American editions of Conrad. In his "author's note" Conrad expresses his satisfaction at having this tale restored "to its proper home and surroundings," rather than cutting down the American edition to "A Set of Five." (The volume is "rounded out" with the addition of "The Romantic Story of Joseph Conrad," much of it gleaned from Richard Curle's biography of the year before.)
Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Point of Honor. McClure Company, 1908.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state ('McClure' at foot of spine) in original dark brown pictorial cloth decorated in gilt and white (minor wear to edges).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Point of Honor - a military tale. McClure, 1908.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Decorated dark green boards are well-bound, colorful w/light rubbing & sunning. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper, missing illustration opposite p88.; clean, sharp pages throughout.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Point of Honor. McClure, New York, 1908.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in original dark green cloth-covered boards with white and gold stamping. First state of the first edition with "McClure" at the bottom of the spine. Illustrations not present. Catalogue listing tipped onto the front endpaper. Two small coffee stains on the foredge.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Point of Honor: A Military Tale. The McClure Company, New York, 1908.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, in green cloth. Light wear to all edges of spine and along bottom edges of boards. Several "pin-sized" indentations on back board. Spine is cocked. A few, faint scratches on front board at one corner and fore-edge. Some foxing on back end-papers. Otherwise book is in very good condition and plastic jacket is mildly yellowed, has a small chip at head of spine and a closed tear along one of the fore-edges.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The point of honor : a military tale. McClure company, New York, 1908.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 182 pages, 4 leaves of plates. Binding sturdy, light wear to corners and to head and foot of spine, rubbing to foot of boards, cover image and lettering fresh; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, inner hinges strong, contents age-toned else unmarked and attractive. The first state binding, with "McClure at foot of spine. 460 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph.. The Point of Honor.. New York, The McClure Company, 1908., 1908.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First separate edition, first state (with "McClure" at base of spine). 8vo. Color frontispiece and 3 color plates by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. Original dark green pictorial cloth, upper cover printed in gilt and white with design of two swordsmen (rubbing to spine ends and extremities). Good-very good. 182 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. Keating 83. Wise p. 42.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph.. The Point of Honor: A Military Tale.. The McClure Company, New York, 1908.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 182 pp. Four illustrations in color by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. 8vo, publisher's green cloth stamped in gold and white. First separate edition. Spine, and the gold lettering on the spine, faded; a few tiny spots to spine; slight rubbing to extremities; otherwise bright, tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The point of honor: A military tale. McClure, 1908.
Price: US$133.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover shows minor wear. Name stamp of former owner on the front free endpaper. Pages are tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. The Point of Honor: A Military Tale. McClure, 1908.
Price: US$141.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: McClure, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover in green cloth. Mild wear; spine slightly cocked. Cover bright; interior clean and unmarked, binding tight. Very Good.
Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. The Point of Honor. Mc Clure, New York, 1908.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1908. A Military Tale. Illustrations by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. New York:The first edition, 1st state with the Mc Clure on the spine. All the plates by the artist are present and are in fine condition. The McClure Company, 1908. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in white. First Separate (and First American) Edition. Earlier in 1908 this tale was published in England (as "The Duel") with five others in A SET OF SIX; it was McClure's publication of this tale that caused the delay in the publication of the American edition of A SET OF SIX until 1915. (Also, no publisher was in a hurry to do so: in 1908 Conrad's career was at its nadir, but his star rose again after CHANCE hit it big in 1914.)~This copy is in the first and usual binding, with "McClure" at the foot of the spine. (THE POINT OF HONOR was published in September 1908; by November, the publisher McClure was forced to sell his assets to Doubleday Page, and subsequently-bound copies bear the new publisher's name at the foot of the spine.) This is a very good plus bright copy, rare thus. Rerferences: Cagle A13c
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Point of Honor. A Military Tale. McClure Company, New York, 1908.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Groesbeck, Dan Sayre. First American edition of "The Duel". Illustrated with four plates in color by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. [vi], 182 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Point of Honor was first published as "The Duel" in A Set of Six (London, 1908). Cagle A13c' cf. Wise 18 Green cloth gilt, upper board pictorial, "McClure at the bottom of the spine (first Issue binding). Near fine Illustrated with four plates in color by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. [vi], 182 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad.. Point of Honor. a Military Tale.. The McClure Company., New York, 1908.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First separate edition. About fine in green cloth with gold stamping and image in white of two duelists. Lacks the dust jacket. (1908) (5 1/2" X 7 3/4") 4 color illustrations by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. Basis for Ridley Scott's finely realized film adaptation titled "The Duelists."
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.