Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
CONRAD, JOSEPH. Victory. 8vo, gilt-stamped red cloth; few small stains to covers, top edges a little dust-soiled; pictorial dust jacket, some soiling and light to moderate edgewear, spine panel ends chipped, just touching title lettering; small chip and short closed tear at upper corner of rear flap fold; publisher's advertisements ("Methuen's Popular Novels") and 31pp. publisher's catalogue dated 8/5/15 at end; J.M. Dent & Sons prospectus laid-in. London: Methuen & Co., (1915)

Additional Details

first english edition, first issue with the comma after "Essex Street" on title-page. Published two months after the first American edition. "The First English Edition of Victory is of importance, as in it appeared for the first time the Author's Prefatory Note of two pages" (Wise, p. 53). in entirely unrestored, rare pictorial dust jacket. Wise 25.