La línea de sombra : una confesión
Bibliographic record 0627
Author
Conrad, Joseph
Title
La línea de sombra : una confesión
Statement of responsibility
Traducción y nota preliminar de Ricardo Baeza
Place of publication
Barcelona
Publisher
Montaner y Simón, S.A.
Publication date
1931
Imprint statement
Barcelona : Montaner y Simón, S.A., 1931
Language
Spanish
Original work
The Shadow-Line : a confession
Original language
English
Translator
Baeza, Ricardo
Collation
209 p.
Illustrations
Does not contain
Maps
Does not contain
Format
Not identified
Dimensions
18,5 × 12 cm
Printer's signatures
No observadas en las imágenes aportadas
Paper type
Wove paper
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Roman type; text set in continuous lines; preliminary note by Ricardo Baeza; epigraph in French; Montaner y Simón edition
Notes on physical description
Slightly yellowed paper, with foxing spots
Binding type
Publisher's cloth binding
Materials
Cloth over boards
Colours
Blue, with author and title in gilt
Decoration
Upper cover framed by a blind fillet, with «J. CONRAD / LA LÍNEA DE SOMBRA» in gilt
Spine
«J. CONRAD / LA LÍNEA DE SOMBRA» in gilt, sunned
Notes
Publisher's cloth with sunned and rubbed spine; text block firm
Content description
Spanish translation of Joseph Conrad's The Shadow-Line, in the version by Ricardo Baeza for Montaner y Simón, with a preliminary note by the translator. A tale of initiation in which a young captain takes up his first command and faces, amid the calm and the crew's illness, the passage from youth to maturity; a work of autobiographical background. The volume opens with a preliminary note on its genesis.
General notes
Translation of Joseph Conrad's The Shadow-Line (trans. and preliminary note by Ricardo Baeza), Montaner y Simón, Barcelona, copyright 1931. Publisher's blue cloth binding with author and title in gilt. Ownership stamp with the signature «Alfred Gallart» on the half-title. From his library.
Main subject
English literature
Subsubjects
Novel; sea; initiation; command; 20th century; translation; Conrad
Keywords
Joseph Conrad; La línea de sombra; The Shadow-Line; Ricardo Baeza; Montaner y Simón
Shelfmark
0627
Condition
Good; text block firm and complete; publisher's cloth with sunned and rubbed spine
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Ownership marks
Ownership stamp with the signature «Alfred Gallart» in violet ink on the half-title
Manuscript annotations
Not identified
Dedications
Not identified
Stamps
Not identified
Restorations
Not identified