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The children of the sea, a tale of the forecastle / by Joseph Conrad author of "Almayer's Folly," "An Outcast of the Island"
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC9 C7637 897c
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Van Dyke, William (autograph) (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 217 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- Cambridge, U.S.A. : University Press: John Wilson and Son.
- Other Title:
- Nigger of the Narcissus
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897.
- Notes:
- T.p. written in red and black.
- Title within double-ruled border.
- "Copyright, 1897 by Bacheller Syndicate. Under the title of The Nigger of the Narcissus. Copyright, 1897, by Dodd, Mead and Company."--T.p. verso.
- Originally published in London as "The nigger of the Narcissus," the title was changed for the first American edition. The original title was restored for all subsequent editions.
- Cover is pictorial light blue-grey mottled cloth with title and author printed in gilt.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph and label of William Van Dyke, New York, July 1912.
- OCLC:
- 1703443
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