Suspense (The Works of Joseph Conrad, Volume 20)
Price: $75.00
Hard Cover. London: William Heinemann, 1927. Near Fine.
Introduction by Richard Curle. New edition. One of 780 copies, 750 of which were for sale. Publisher's buckram-backed tan boards, author's facsimile signature in black to front board, titles in black to spine, publisher's emblem to rear board. Near fine, with light thumbsoiling to boards and spine, very mild rubbing to spine ends, light toning to top and right edges of front board, unread with uncut pages. Overall, a handsome copy. Suspense takes place in early 1815, during the uncertain days of Napoleon's exile on Elba. Cosmo Latham, an Englishman, comes to Genoa amidst its conspiratorial atmosphere, and falls in love with the daughter of an old family friend, now trapped in an unhappy marriage. Conrad wrote nearly 90,000 words of the novel before passing away on August 3rd, 1924. In his introduction, Richard Curle writes, "...perhaps [the book's] very incompleteness adds to the sense of mystery which enshrouds its pages, giving to this mighty fragment a more august significance than could be found in the pellucid beauty of a finished work of art." Item #JC079
