A Set of Six

Joseph Conrad

Published by Doubleday, Page & Co, 1908

About this Item

1908, 2nd Edition, 3rd Printing Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Green soft leather boards and binding with gilded title and author. Boards in very poor condition as they are worn across all edges and on the board itself. Binding is very worn, although one can still read the author and title. First American Edition of this collection of six short stories. The English edition had been published in 1908, and in the same year one of the stories, "The Duel," was published alone by McClure of New York (as "The Point of Honor"). A few months later McClure went under and was bought out by Doubleday -- but since Doubleday could not acquire the copyright to most of the other five tales (because they had already been published in England), he was in no hurry to publish this volume -- until the success of CHANCE in 1913 prompted him to do so (hence the seven-year delay of the American A SET OF SIX). All of this undoubtedly prompted a small printing, making this one of the scarcer American editions of Conrad. In his "author's note" Conrad expresses his satisfaction at having this tale restored "to its proper home and surroundings," rather than cutting down the American edition to "A Set of Five." (The volume is "rounded out" with the addition of "The Romantic Story of Joseph Conrad," much of it gleaned from Richard Curle's biography of the year before.). Seller Inventory # 585

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Set of Six

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co

Publication Date: 1908

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor

Edition: 2nd Edition