The Secret Agent.

£450 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

signed by the author Number 88 of 1000 copies signed by Joseph Conrad of his play The Secret Agent, adapted from his 1907 novel of the same name. The play ran for ten performances over one week at London's Ambassador's Theatre in November. Published the year before his death. Number 88 of 1000 copies signed by the author; 8vo (23 x 15 cm); signed in pen and numbered to limitation page, photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, old bookseller's invoice loose to front free endpapers; publisher's japanese vellum backed blue paper boards, label printed in red to spine, spine a little toned, original blue paper jacket with printed spine label, spine toned and fragmented with loss, tears repaired with archival tape to verso, edges uncut and occasionally unopened, very good; [6], 185, [1]pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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