Typhoon Conrad, Joseph [Very Good] [Hardcover]

Description

First American Edition, Copyright 1902 by G.P. Putnam's Sons. and published in early September 1902 (see Supino, below.) Hard cover, 16mo, in dark blue green cloth, with the distinctive art deco image of a steam-assisted sailing vessel plying moody, mounting seas at night blocked in black, orange and dark grey. Titles contrast strongly in the orange. Cover art has a ""square"" monogram signature to the lower right corner. Top edge stained gray. Illustrated with frontispiece and a further 5 black and white illustrations by British Artist Maurice Greiffenhagen R.A.(1862-1931) book illustrator, painter and poster artist.** COLLATION:[2] [i-iv],[frontis and guard], [v], [vi blank], I-205pp., [1], Publisher's advertising section titled""Good Fiction,"" [4pp.][1].**CONDITION: Very Good. Covers are clean, with perhaps minute wear to tips, ghost of a sticker to rear board. Within, gentle age toning to pages. Both hinges appear to have been reglued. Book is square and tight, with no signs of foxing. Engraved bookplate of former owner to front pastedown. Lacking dust jacket. ** First serialized in Pall Mall Magazine, Jan. - March 1902. This First American Edition does not contain the additional tales contained in the First English Edition. **This classic nautical tale of Capt. McWhirr and the voyage of the Nan-Shan through the roughest China Seas puts the reader right in the eye of the proverbial hurricane, where character and resolve of even the most experienced crew are pitted against nature itself. Moral conundrums arise involving the treatment of the Chinese crew, and the Siamese flagging of what is essentially a British merchant vessel in this powerfully written novel by the Polish-Ukrainian Author Joseph Conrad, writing in his third language, English, which he began learning a mere twenty or so years earlier. Lohf & Sheehy 161. David J. Supino, A8.1.0, p. 94-97 in ""Joseph Conrad, A Bibliographical Catalogue of Editions to 1930,"" (Liverpool Univ. Press, 2022.) First American Edition, first impression.