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Conrad, Joseph. The Rover. Doubleday, PAge & Co, London, 1923.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 286 pp. 8vo. This is the regular issue, published on December 1, 1923, the day after the signed limited. Keating 179 A near fine copy in original gilt-lettered cloth, just a touch of wear to the extremities
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Rover [Signed Limited]. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1923.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by Conrad on the limitation page. First Edition, limited, this being number 104 of 377 copies. Frontispiece portrait from an etching by Muirhead Bone with printed tissue-guard. Original parchment over boards, gilt-stamped rover vignette to front board and spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, untrimmed The Rover, which originally began as a short story, was later serialized in the Pictorial Review, September-December, 1923. Keating 178. 8vo. [11], 370pp., [1]. Slipcase and jacket not present; spine darkened, small pull to head of spine, light spotting to binding, front hinge cracked but still very good.
Seller: Nelson Rare Books, ABAA, Haddonfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. The Rover. Doubleday Page & Co, Garden City, New York, 1923.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1923. 1st. Frontispiece portrait of Conrad from an etching by Muirhead Bone. Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company, 1923. First edition, one of 377 copies signed by Conrad. 9" x 6¼"; 371 pp. "I have wanted for a long time," wrote Conrad of his last novel, "to do a seaman's 'return' (before my own departure)." Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it is the story of Peyrol, a French sailor, master-gunner, pirate, and "rover of the outer seas" for more than fifty years, who vainly seeks to withdraw from his tumultuous and blood-filled life at an isolated farmhouse on the south coast of France. Vellum paper-covered boards with a frigate stamped in gilt on the front board and spine. Usual wear to spine the top edge is gilt, but a very good copy, sans the glassine wrapper and board slipcase that rarely appears, note this limited edition is printed in fine type font on hand made rag paper as per se the specifications of the author. A very good copy.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph.. The Rover.. Doubleday, Page & Company. T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. 1923., 1923.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition (Stated First Edition). Special signed/limited edition: #247/377 signed copies signed boldly byJoseph Conrad. VG- in worn and soiled vellum-like paper-covered boards. Ruled in gilt and green borders. With tears at the top of the spine and along the spine edge. Internally near fine and tight. First Edition (Stated First Edition).
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph.. THE ROVER.. Doubleday, Page, Company, 1923.
Price: US$660.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo [ 6 ¼ X 9 inches ], light colored velum or paper with blue tips and gilt title and ship on spine and front board, signed limited edition of 377 copies, this is copy 291. Pages: two blanks, limitation page, half title, engraved portrait, title page, dedication, half title[again], 371 pages and final note from publisher giving month and year of publication, three blanks. Deckle edges, very mild foxing of end papers, very clean throughout. Signed boldly by Conrad on the limitation page. An American first as a book.
Seller: Tintagel, Springfield Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. The Rover. Doubleday & Page Co., New York, 1923.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original cream gilt boards without the original glassine wrapper as usual. Light edge wear,under glassine wraps later, else fine, interior fine. Signed in ink on the llimitation page by Joseph Conrad, copy no. 60 of only 775 on handmade laid paper. Gilt ship on spine, great novel of the seas, and a large gilt ship on central cover. Only one other copy in lessor conditon for sale.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. The Rover. Doubleday, Page & Company, Gardeny City, NY, 1923.
Price: US$1318.49 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Limited SIGNED first numbered edition, No. 84/377. First edition stated to copyright page. New custom leather binding with raised bands to spine, nautical stamped decorations to compartments, blind stamped sailboat to front board, gilt titles and borders. Inner edges dentelle. T.E.G. Marbled endpapers, new binder's blanks. With protective paper jacket. 371 pp. Frontis. portrait of Conrad w/ printed tissue guard. Roughly cut edges. Fore edge of text block age toned and embrittled, very faint foxing to tail edge. About fine. The Rover is the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
CONRAD, JOSEPH. The Rover. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1923.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very nice copy of the true first edition. The Rover first appeared serially in the Pictorial Review in 1923. This copy of the limited edition was published in November of 1923 in an edition of 377 copies, this one being number 362 and signed by Conrad on the limitation page. Frontispiece portrait of Conrad opposite the title page by Muirhead Bone. The tissue guard is present. T.E.G. Original cream colored boards, lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Otis Skinner Blodget laid in. In the original deep sea blue paper dust jacket, lettered in black on the spine. This signed limited edition preceeded the both the U.S. and U.K. trade editions. Walter E. Smith #25. Very Good / Near Fine.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. THE ROVER. Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company., 1923.
Price: US$1617.02 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form, first printing. Limited edition, signed by the author. Publisher's original cream paper covered boards, illustrated and with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine, in both the original glassine and blue paper dustwrapper, housed in the publisher's card slipcase. Top edge gilt, all others uncut. Frontispiece portrait from an etching by Muirhead Bone, complete with printed tissue guard. A superb very near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the boards bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. There is a clean closed tear to the fore-edge of the rear endpaper. Complete with the fine plain glassine, underneath the very lightly rubbed blue paper jacket, printed in black to the spine. Both jackets remain without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the worn card slipcase, darkened to all sides and split to one side of the upper edge. The printed label to the backstrip (hand numbered 137 corresponding with that on the limitation page), although toned and a little rubbed at the corners remains without loss. An excellent example, seldom encountered thus. Conceived as a short story and expanded to become Conrad's last full novel, 'The Rover' was first serialised over four issues of Pictorial Review magazine between September and December 1923. The first edition in book form was issued in a limited edition of 377 copies, each individually numbered and signed by Joseph Conrad in black ink on the limitation page. Both the UK and US trade editions followed later. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom