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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. First American edition. 335, [1], [10, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original lime green cloth (Cagle’s binding a). Fine, bright copy. First American edition. 335, [1], [10, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first American edition of Conrad’s second a book, a precursor to Almayer’s Folly. “Because An Outcast of the Island was scheduled for inclusion in a family library series, it was decided, in the interest of propriety, to purge it of all descriptions, however innocent, of love making between Willems and Aissa” (Cagle). Smith 2 (Eng. ed.); Keating 6; Cagle A2b(2)

An Outcast of the Islands is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1896. The book follows the story of Peter Willems, a Dutch-Belgian tramp with a troubled past, who finds himself involved in treacherous local politics in a colonial setting.

Green cloth.