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The Works of Joseph Conrad in 20 Volumes -
Joseph Conrad
1925 - John Grant, Edinburgh
A finely bound twenty volume set of Conrad’s works. Illustrated with a frontispiece photogravure to each volume, and facsimile signatures of the author printed to first and final leaves. Each work preceded by the ‘Author’s Notes’.
Comprising: Lord Jim, Youth (which includes Heart of Darkness), The Secret Agent, Typhoon, Almayer’s Folly, The Arrow of Gold, The Nigger of the “Narcissus”, Victory, Nostromo, The Rover, Under Western Eyes, ‘Twixt Land and Sea, A Set of Six, A Personal Record, The Rescue, Within the Tides, Tales of Unrest, An Outcast of The Islands, The Shadow Line, The Mirror of The Sea, The Inheritors, Chance, Notes on Life and Letters, and Romance.
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1925 - John Grant, Edinburgh
A finely bound twenty volume set of Conrad’s works. Illustrated with a frontispiece photogravure to each volume, and facsimile signatures of the author printed to first and final leaves. Each work preceded by the ‘Author’s Notes’.Comprising: Lord Jim, Youth (which includes Heart of Darkness), The Secret Agent, Typhoon, Almayer’s Folly, The Arrow of Gold, The Nigger of the “Narcissus”, Victory, Nostromo, The Rover, Under Western Eyes, ‘Twixt Land and Sea, A Set of Six, A Personal Record, The Rescue, Within the Tides, Tales of Unrest, An Outcast of The Islands, The Shadow Line, The Mirror of The Sea, The Inheritors, Chance, Notes on Life and Letters, and Romance.
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The Secret Agent. A Simple Tale -
Joseph Conrad
1907 - Methuen &, London - First Edition
‘I confess that it makes a grisly skeleton. But I will submit that telling Winnie Verloc’s story to its anarchistic end of utter desolation, madness an despair, and telling it as I have told it here, I have not intended to commit a gratuitous outrage on the feelings of mankind’ – Conrad, of The Secret Agent in a later edition.
One of the first examples of a double agent ever produced on paper, and the first book to examine terrorism as a plot device, Conrad’s novel follows Adolf Verloc: a spy with an allegiance to an unnamed country, and his brother-in-law Stevie as they track down a conglomerate of anarchists, terrorists, and spies, risking the loss of everything they hold dear. Based on the true events of the Greenwich Bombing of 1894, Conrad’s Stevie follows a similar trajectory to that of French anarchist, Martial Bourdin.
‘I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.’
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1907 - Methuen &, London - First Edition
‘I confess that it makes a grisly skeleton. But I will submit that telling Winnie Verloc’s story to its anarchistic end of utter desolation, madness an despair, and telling it as I have told it here, I have not intended to commit a gratuitous outrage on the feelings of mankind’ – Conrad, of The Secret Agent in a later edition.One of the first examples of a double agent ever produced on paper, and the first book to examine terrorism as a plot device, Conrad’s novel follows Adolf Verloc: a spy with an allegiance to an unnamed country, and his brother-in-law Stevie as they track down a conglomerate of anarchists, terrorists, and spies, risking the loss of everything they hold dear. Based on the true events of the Greenwich Bombing of 1894, Conrad’s Stevie follows a similar trajectory to that of French anarchist, Martial Bourdin.
‘I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.’
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The Spy s Bedside Book : An Anthology -
Graham Greene, Hugh Greene
1957 - Rupert Hart-Davis, London - First Edition
‘That night I slept but little’ - William Le Queux.
Brilliant – Full of fantastic short stories, poems and advice from such espionage greats as Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Kipling, Ian and Peter Fleming, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Fenimore Cooper, T.E. Lawrence, Dennis Wheatley, and Somerset Maugham. With occasional in-text illustrations and diagrams.
Topics grouped under headings including Tricks of the Trade; Hazards of the Profession; Some Simple Disguises; Professional Perquisites and Delights of the Profession.
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1957 - Rupert Hart-Davis, London - First Edition
‘That night I slept but little’ - William Le Queux. Brilliant – Full of fantastic short stories, poems and advice from such espionage greats as Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Kipling, Ian and Peter Fleming, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Fenimore Cooper, T.E. Lawrence, Dennis Wheatley, and Somerset Maugham. With occasional in-text illustrations and diagrams.
Topics grouped under headings including Tricks of the Trade; Hazards of the Profession; Some Simple Disguises; Professional Perquisites and Delights of the Profession.
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Price HK$ 2,500