Buy this book on-line CONRAD**, JOSEPH: : THREE PLAYS: SECRET AGENT,LAUGHING ANNE,ONE DAY MORELONDON.METHUEN,1934. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.(The 3 plays previously published singularly,and this edn published posthumously,Conrad died 1924.)VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,no clip to dw/dj - price on spine/backstrip.Plain, tan dw/dj with brown ink printed letters with minimal shelf-wear to edges.Spine/ backstrip slightly darkened and marked/ stained to foot.Miniscule loss to head of spine/backstrip and light chipping with minimal loss to foot.Top edges slightly more creased than bottom.Small rectangular clip;approx 0.75" x 2.50" wide,to top right-hand corner of ffe,owner name removed? Bright,clean green cloth bds, with black ink printed letters to spine/ backstrip and clean,plain white eps.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and spotted, fore and bottom edges lightly aged and lightly spotted/foxed too,as usual/normal.
Contents bright,tight and clean with little or no foxing apart from prelims.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vpp+1-184pp [paginated].
Like many other novelists,Conrad was unable to repeat his success as a novelist when he ventured into the theatre.The one-act play "One Day More" received an unsympathetic reception when first staged in 1905;when it appeared in print twice, Clement Shorter,1917 published only 25 copies and by the Beaumont Press,1919, it was in a ltd ed of 250 copies, plus a further 24 printed on Japanese vellum. Conrad's own adaptation of his own novel,
"The Secret Agent",was staged at the Ambassadors Theatre in London late in 1922, but was another critical failure.It too appeared in print twice; a 1921, Cambridge,privately printed 69pp for author only and T.Werner Laurie,1923,185pp printed for subscribers only.
"Laughing Anne" apart from this edn was only printed in Bookman Journal,1923;No.4 of the 'Vine Books'.
Works from the closing stage of Conrad's life,from 1919 to 1924, are relatively easy to acquire and collect,but inevitably without the dw/dj.
Dw/dj for these books are rarely present, but when they are they will treble or quadruple the values.
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