SUSPENSE.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1925.
1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo., 303pp. plus ads. A fine copy in the original maroon cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on the spine in an absolutely lovely pictorial dustwrapper, showing a hint of use at the crown and heel of the spine and one short closed tear on the back panel . [The American edition was issued one day earlier). Frontispiece Joseph Conrad and Captain David Bone on the Tuscania, April, 1923. Introduction by Richard Curle. 8vo. 303 pp. + 4 pp. of advertisements. Ex-Libris Thomas Hardy scholar and bibliographer, Richard Little Purdy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Smith 28. From Curle's introduction: "In giving to his last, unfinished, novel the name of 'Suspense', Conrad chose a title even more symbolic than the haunting, breathless air of the narrative suggests. For the threads were snapp ed when the climax had still to be unfolded, when the characters had yet to come together in the harmony of completed action, and when the whole story hung, as it were, between the darkness and the dawn. The suspense will last for ever"
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