SUSPENSE: A Napoleonic Novel.
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Original white parchment with blue fore-corners, with blue paper and tissue dust jackets, and with publisher's slipcase.
First Edition, which consisted of 377 numbered copies, this being #354. This was Conrad's last novel, posthumously published. It was issued in a format identical to THE ROVER of 1923, similarly 377 copies; however, SUSPENSE was not signed, for the reason implied above.
This is a remarkably complete copy: it has not only the blue paper dust jacket but also the original secondary tissue jacket, and it additionally has the publisher's original paperboard slipcase (bearing the same copy # as the limitation leaf). The condition of the book and both jackets is virtually as new (in fact, the leaves remain unopened); the paperboard box is slightly worn at its edges but is still quite sturdy. Supino A26.1.0 and Plate 30 (this copy); Smith pp 98-99; Keating 188. Provenance: discreet bookplate of Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino. Item #15449
Price: $625.00