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Youth ; Typhoon ; The end of the tether / Joseph Conrad ; with an introduction by Leo Gurko and illustrations by Robert Shore.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Heritage Club 22
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature.
- Sea stories.
- Adventure and adventurers.
- Voyages and travels--Fiction.
- Voyages and travels.
- Seafaring life--Fiction.
- Seafaring life.
- Clipper ships--Fiction.
- Clipper ships.
- Typhoons--Fiction.
- Typhoons.
- Ship captains--Fiction.
- Ship captains.
- Financial risk--Fiction.
- Financial risk.
- East Asia--Travel--Fiction.
- East Asia.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Sea stories -- 1972.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [8], ix-xiv, [2], 251 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : Rae Publishing Company
- Other Title:
- Half title: Three tales of the sea
- Typhoon
- End of the tether
- Place of Publication:
- Avon, Connecticut : Heritage Press, [1972]
- Contents:
- Youth : a narrative
- Typhoon
- The end of the tether.
- Notes:
- Half title page.
- In slipcase.
- Some of the color plates are full spreads.
- Quarter blue sailcloth with color illustrated boards. Gilt lettering over black and red on spine. In blue slipcase.
- "The special contents of this edition are copyright ©1972 by The George Macy Companies, Inc.
- Ward Ritchie is the book designer. Pages printed by the Rae Publishing Co. in New York on paper crafted by the Mohawk Paper Mill, Cohoes, N.Y. Plates made at Rainbows, Inc., Hazardville, Conn. and printed in Springfield, Mass. by the Holyoke Lithograph Company. Bound by Tapley-Rutter--(cf. Heritage Club Sandglass newsletter, no. VII:37).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014.
- Contains:
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Typhoon.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. End of the tether.
- OCLC:
- 1117790
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