Joseph Conrad — The Rover

London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd , 1923. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first trade edition of Joseph Conrad's last finished novel, a compelling story of naval life in Napoleonic France. First trade edition, following the American limited edition and the original serialization in the Pictorial Review of the same year.In the publisher's cloth binding. The last complete novel by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, set against Napoleon's rise to power and the French-English rivalry in the Mediterranean. Peyrol (a master-gunner in the French republican navy and "rover of the outer seas") attempts to find refuge in an isolated farmhouse on the Giens Peninsula near Hyeres.Regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language, Conrad based many of his stories in nautical settings or crises of human individuality, and his narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors. In the publisher's cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with minor bumping to the spine head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with toning and offsetting to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .