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Price: US$48.85 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Time and Chance: A Romance and a History: Being the Story of the Life of a Man, Hubbard, Elbert. G.P. Putnam's Sons (Knickerbocker Press), 1902. A Story Of Romance And A History: Being The Story Of The Life Of A Man (John Brown). Revised Edition. Brown suede over boards with yapped edges. title in gilt set in decorative design; pink silk paste down inside front and back boards. Frontispiece of John Brown with tissue guard; frontispiece of Ruth Crosby with tissue guard beginning Book Two. 6 pages of literary ads including announcement of Typhoon by Joseph Conrad. Minor scratches and rubbing to suede; interior is fine. A novel based on the life of John Brown (1800-1859) an American abolitionist. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) founded his Roycroft Printing Shop in 1895 and created books treasured today for their craftsman style, fine bindings, handmade paper, and elaborately designed and decorated pages. Elbert and his wife, Alice were among the 1,198 passengers and crew who died aboard the S.S. Lusitania when it was torpedoed at the start of World War I.
Seller: Back Lane Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Typhoon. Conrad, Joseph. G.P. Putnam, 1902, 1902.
Price: US$58.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original Blue Decorative Cloth Lettered In Orange. Unmarked, Clean And Solid. Thin Break Of Paper Over Boards Insider Rear Cover. Moderate/Normal Shelf Wear And Signs Of Use.
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. Typhoon. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1902.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An early reprint edition of the gripping tale of the sea by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). The author, born in Poland, served in the merchant navies of France and Britain before turning to full-time writing in England. In this novelette, his Captain MacWhirr character obstinately refuses to attempt to avoid the full force of a ferocious typhoon. With 6 plates bearing Maurice Greiffenhagen's black & white illustrations. --- In dark green cloth-covered boards with shadowy image of the steamer SS Nan-Shan amidst stormy seas; orange titling and accents. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With prior owner's signatures in 3 locations (twice on title page), light wear & minor soiling to cloth and discreet New York bookseller label to rear paste-down, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; v, 205, (4, ads) pages
Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. Typhoon. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1902.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 1902 correct 1st edition (preceding the British edition by 1 year). Tight and VG to VG+ in its pictorial, dark-green cloth, with light bumping at the tips and just a touch of very light rubbing to the panels. 12mo, illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1902.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Original blue decorative cloth lettered in orange. Slight spine lean, but a nice copy. [vi] + 205pp. + [i] blank + [iv] adverts. 6 plates. Precedes U.K. edition.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. Typhoon. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York. First American Edition, preceding the first English edition by one year. Very Good, slightly cocked, The Tabard Inn Library copy with their bookplate on the front pastedown and review of the book on the rear pastedown. Large triangle pice cut from bottom of front are endpaper.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$272.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Orange type to the dark green boards; the silhouette of the wave-tossed ship decorates the front board, with lights visible from her seven portholes. PONs Wendell Haines and then Paul Haines of Albion, N.Y., to front endpapers. The front hinge is partially open, but holding. Six glossy B&W plates (including the frontispiece), as called for. 205 pp. followed by 4 pp. publisher's ads, including for Melville Davisson Post's "Dwellers In The Hills" (1901.) The 1940 film of the same title -- starring Dorothy Lamour as a kind of female Tarzan who grew up alone on a tropical island accompanied only by Koko the Chimp -- would appear to be unrelated. (We certainly HOPE it's unrelated.) Polish-born Joseph Conrad (Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857-1924) is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists ever to write in the English language. This is one of his shorter works. Reduced from $620.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.