Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. First American edition, first state, with 20 (not 21) titles opposite title page, 'credentials and apparently' on p. 5, lines 16-17. Spine leans forward slightly, lightly rubbed, pencil name on front endpaper. 1919 Hard Cover. 385 pp. 8vo. A novel by the author of The Heart of Darkness and numerous nautical stories. It 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. The novel features a person referred to as 'Lord X', whose activities as arms smuggler resemble those of the Carlist politician Tirso de Olazabal y Lardizabal, Count of Arbelaiz.