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Sale 278: Fine Modern Literature (#278) 01/29/2004 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #48 The Rover

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Estimate: $150 - $250

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Description

Title:

The Rover

Author:

Conrad, Joseph

Place Published:

Garden City, NY

Publisher:

Doubleday, Page & Co.

Date Published:

1923

Description:

[6], 286 pp. 7½x5, dark blue cloth, gilt stamping on front cover, lettered in gilt, jacket. First Trade Edition.

The Rover, which originally began as a short story, was later serialized in the Pictorial Review, September-December, 1923. The American edition precedes the first British edition. Keating 179; Ehrsam 2250; Smith 25.

Condition:

A few small tears to jacket edges (one repaired), tiny chips to spine ends and corners, faint foxing; light shelf wear to volume; small label of Paul Elder & Co. on rear pastedown; cloth clean and bright, else very good or better in a good to very good jacket.

Item#:

141377
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