Author: CONRAD, JOSEPH
Title: The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes
Description: London :T Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1919.. First reprint December 1919 of the fist edition of August 1919 X + 336 p. HARDCOVER: ( Orig. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering to front board & spine with front page of dust jacket..Bit fox. Name fep. VERY GOOD) ¶ The Arrow of Gold is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1919. RARE in this FRESH condition.The book was originally titled "The Laugh" and published serially in Lloyd's Magazine from December 1918 to February 1920. The story is set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War. The characters of the novel are supporters of the Spanish Pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid. Curiously, the novel features a person referred to as "Lord X", whose activities as arms smuggler resemble those of the Carlist politician Tirso de Olazábal y Lardizábal, Count of Arbelaiz.

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