The Secret Agent : a simple tale

Bibliographic record 1003
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Conrad, Joseph
Title
The Secret Agent : a simple tale
Place of publication
Londres
Publisher
Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Printer
Jarrold and Sons Ltd., Norwich
Publication date
1929
Imprint statement
London : Methuen & Co., 1929
Language
English
Edition
Nineteenth edition (Crown 8vo, cheap form)
2. Physical description
Collation
313 p.
Illustrations
Does not contain
Maps
Does not contain
Format
8º
Dimensions
19 × 13,5 cm
Paper type
Wove paper
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Roman typeface; typographic title page without illustration; the volume includes the full list of editions (1907–1929)
Notes on physical description
Yellowed paper with foxing
3. Binding
Binding type
Publisher's cloth binding
Materials
Cloth over boards
Colours
Greyish green, with lettering stamped in black
Decoration
Author and title stamped in black on the front board; rear board plain
Spine
Spine with author and title stamped in black; "METHUEN" at the foot
Endpapers
Plain light-coloured endpapers
Notes
Cloth worn and rubbed on the spine, headcaps and edges; text block firm
4. Content
Content description
A novel by Conrad set in late nineteenth-century London. Mr Verloc, a secret agent and informer who keeps a disreputable shop in Soho, is ordered by an embassy to carry out a bomb attack on the Greenwich Observatory in order to provoke a crackdown on anarchist circles. The plan goes horribly wrong and drags his wife, Winnie, into tragedy. An ironic and sombre tale of terrorism, politics, betrayal and domestic life, regarded as one of Conrad's masterpieces.
5. General notes
General notes
The Secret Agent in its nineteenth edition (Methuen & Co., London, 1929; Crown 8vo, cheap form), according to the list of editions in the volume itself. Publisher's cloth binding. It bears a label of Conrad's literary agent, James B. Pinker & Son (Talbot House, Arundel Street, London). From the library of Alfred Gallart i Genís.
6. Subjects
Main subject
Twentieth-century English literature
Subsubjects
Spy novel; anarchism and terrorism; London; political irony; Anglo-Polish literature
Keywords
Conrad; The Secret Agent; Verloc; Greenwich; anarchism; Methuen; 1929
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
1003
Condition
Fair-to-good; text block firm and complete; cloth worn and rubbed on the spine and edges; interior with foxing
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Ownership marks
Not observed in the supplied images
Manuscript annotations
Not identified
Dedications
Not identified
Stamps
Not identified
Restorations
Not identified
Copy notes
Printed label of the literary agent James B. Pinker & Son (Talbot House, Arundel Street, Strand, London) affixed to the endpaper