Joseph Conrad's gripping adventure story takes place on a tropical South Pacific island. With author's prefatory notes. This Modern Library edition in the dust jacket variant with palm trees, blue sea and yellow sky. --- In Toledano spine 8 w/full pale green cloth covers, gilt titling stamped on green blocks, cover & spine, publisher's green topstain and grey Kent endpapers. Volume bears 1921 date but likely published c.1959. Jacket style i, verso advertises 385 titles in ML catalog. ML #34.2. --- With some dulling to cover & spine gilding and a couple of spots of chafing to cloth; otherwise bright, clean and tightly bound. Price-clipped, bright dust jacket with a few chips and chafing along edges but remaining mostly intact and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xvi, 385 pages