Books

First edition, first impression (adverts dated 1907; misprint at p.117 reads ?be be? for ?to be?), pp.(iii),442,40(publisher?s adverts), uncut, red cloth, gilt, decorative gilt motifs to spine; pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims and to fore-edges (occasionally affecting margins), some rubbing to extremities, a very good, rather bright copy. (No dust-jacket).

The Secret Agent, first published in 1907, is one of Joseph Conrad's later political novels which portray the darker aspects of human nature.