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First American Edition, first impression. Hard cover, 8vo, in original blue linen-wove cloth, titles to the front board in a reverse art deco style frame with the ship logo below, and the spine blocked in gold. Copyright, 1916, Doubleday, Page & Company. (With notation of earlier magazine copyrights of 1911 Harper & Brothers as well as 1913, 1914 by Metropolitan Magazine.) Printed Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y. All edges trimmed.**COLLATION: [i-viii],[1-2], 3-300 pp. [301], [3]pp. **CONDITION: Near Fine. Some spotting to the reverse gold of the title on front board with a couple of spots to boards, minor crimping at head of spine. Otherwise, clean, square, bright and tight with hinges in order. Now protected in mylar. Lacking dust jacket.**This is the First American Edition in book form of this collection of four of Conrad's lesser-known short stories. These include: "THE PLANTER OF MALATA," (first serialized in the American Metropolitan Magazine, June-July 1914) and described on the English first edition jacket thus: as "a thrilling romance of a planter in the little island of Malata, in the South Seas. A planter, Renouard, is developing an artificial silk alternative in the story, which was apparently a colonial enterprise which caused a real life investment bubble. There is a story of unrequited love, ending badly. "THE PARTNER," (appearing in Harper's Magazine Nov. 1911) is described as "a story of a shipwreck and a rogue." "THE INN OF TWO WITCHES" (seen in Pall Mall Magazine, March 1913) is called "a tale of the adventures of an officer and a sailor, on board a sloop-of-war, at an inn in the North of Spain." Finally, the story "BECAUSE OF THE DOLLARS" (appeared as "Laughing Anne" in Metropolitan Magazine, Sept. 1914) "relates the terrible experience of the captain of a steamer in the Malay Archipelago. REFS: Lohf and Sheehy 177. Serialization, J.M. Dent jacket copy, and other Doubleday Page edition information from D. Supino, A.18. 1.0., pp. 244-245. THIS edition is his A.5.0 on page 248-49. Keating 110, edition only.
Ref: CONRD 9223
$195.00