The Rover

Conrad, Joseph

The Rover

Londres ; Toronto

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.

The Uniform Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad

Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Bungay, Suffolk

Ca. 1923

London ; Toronto : J. M. Dent & Sons, [ca. 1923]

English

Uniform Edition

286 p.

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21,5 × 14,5 cm

Signaturas alfabéticas de cuaderno; en la primera página de texto figura «B» al pie

Laid paper

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Title page in two inks (red and black) with the publisher's device (Aldine House); Roman typeface, even inking and good legibility

Paper with foxing and yellowing, more visible on the title page and the edges

Publisher's cloth binding

Cloth over boards

Red, with gilt stamping; spine sunned, lighter

Front board with the winged hourglass emblem blind-stamped; rear board plain

Spine with author and title ("JOSEPH CONRAD / THE ROVER") and ornaments gilt-stamped; publisher at the foot

Endpapers printed with Conrad's heraldic arms (the Nałęcz coat of arms) in green

Spine sunned relative to the boards; cloth somewhat rubbed at the edges; text block firm

The last novel Joseph Conrad completed, published in 1923. Set on the coast of Provence during the Napoleonic Wars, it tells of the return of the old privateer Peyrol, seasoned in the Indian seas, to a retreat near Toulon, where he becomes caught up in watching the English fleet and in a final sacrifice for France. A novel of the sea and of old age, elegiac in tone, about loyalty, rootlessness and coming to terms with one's own past. A volume of the Uniform Edition of Conrad's works published by J. M. Dent.

The Rover, Conrad's last completed novel, in the Uniform Edition of J. M. Dent (London). Undated on the title page; the Uniform Edition begins in 1923, the year of the work's first edition. Publisher's red cloth binding with the winged hourglass emblem blind-stamped and endpapers bearing Conrad's Nałęcz arms. From the library of Alfred Gallart i Genís.

Twentieth-century English literature

Sea novel; Napoleonic Wars; Provence; old age and redemption; Anglo-Polish literature

Conrad; The Rover; Peyrol; J. M. Dent; Uniform Edition; sea novel; 1923

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Good; text block firm and complete; publisher's binding with the spine sunned; interior with foxing, more visible on the title page

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

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