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1898rif. 32905London : Heinemann 1898 . First Edition . Very Good- . 8VO . First Printing of the British edition with larger H in Heinemann at bottom of spine hi missing from his on page 146 and 16 page catalogue at rear. Covers a little worn more at edges and extremities gilt faded scuffed. Heinemann unknown
1913rif. 7563Methuen & Co. Ltd. London.1913. Spurrious First edition. Actually the fourth impression with a cancel title page stating " First Published 1913" on verso on the title page stub. 8vo. 7.8 x 5.4 inches. 8 page publishers advert dated Autumn 1913 at the rear. Light foxing throughout the pages otherwise a very good copy in a contemporary fine leather binding by Broadbere of Southampton and with their small binders label on the front pastedown of full black morocco. Spine with raised bands each with multiple wavy lines. Compartments double ruled lettered and elaborately decorated all in gilt. Boards with decorative gilt tooled panel within a decorative border again all in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Gilt inner dentelles. A beautifully bound copy of this edition the less common 1913 Cancel title page issue. Copies with the true 1913 integral title are rare it is thought that only about fifty survived and most early copies were issued with cancel title pages dated 1914 - when the book was finally published.: Methuen & Co. Ltd. London.,1913 hardcover
1895rif. 61260London: T Fisher Unwin. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition with ommission to two words on page 110 272pp bound in original dark green cloth spine sunned to brown sl bumped top/base spine aaand a chip in top spine sl scratching to rear cover tiny tear to bottom title page sl minor odd spotting on few pps top edge gilt. Scarce.; Octavo . T Fisher Unwin hardcover
1897rif. 32784Heinemann 1898 1897. 8vo. First Edition thus free endpapers browned text with some light marginal toning; original grey cloth upper board blocked and lettered in gilt gilt back uncut joints mildly rubbed backstrip chafed at head and tail else a good bright copy. With personal book-stamp on front free endpaper. Dedicated to Edward Garnett Conrad's third novel was first published in the USA as 'The Children of the Sea'. This is the first UK edition with all Smith's points dated 1898 but published on 2 December 1897. This copy has binding 'B' with small caps on backstrip and the 32pp of publisher's advertisements from 'Illumination' to 'The Island of Doctor Moreau'. Smith 3 pp.6-11. Heinemann, hardcover
1978rif. DISPLAYBROWNJM108Lawrence Hill Books 1978. First Edition. Hardcover No Dust Jacket. Very Good/Acceptable. 8x5x1. signed by author. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes : Very Good Hardcover in Acceptable Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Chipped torn and Tanned Price Clipped A few smudges to Dust Jacket Inscribed Presentation Copy Signed by the Author Clean Pages Prompt Shipping with Tracking 8vo 240 pages. Lawrence Hill Books hardcover
1996rif. 48890Folio Society 1996-2005. 17 vols. 8vo. with illustrations; decorative blue cloth blocked and lettered in silver grey endpapers a near fine set in publisher's original board slip-cases lettered in silver. The set comprises: Heart of Darkness Typhoon & Other Tales The Shadow Line The Arrow of Gold The Secret Agent Lord Jim The Rescue Almayer's Folly Chance Nostromo The Rover Victory The Mirror of the Sea The Secret Sharer Under Western Eyes The Duel & Other Tales An Outcast of the Islands. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE Folio Society, hardcover
1895rif. 9595London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. In-8 de 272 pages, pleine percaline verte, dos (foncé) avec titre doré, plats muets, tête dorée. Non rogné. Rousseurs en début et en fin, quelques accrocs minimes à la percaline.
1923rif. 1240671923. First Edition. Signed. CONRAD Joseph. Laughing Anne. London: The Bookman's Journal 1923. Octavo original full vellum top edge gilt untrimmed original clamshell box. $1200.Signed limited edition of Conrad's play number 168 of only 200 copies signed by Conrad printed on Kelmscott handmade paper and bound in full vellum.""Laughing Anne is a dramatization of Conrad's story 'Because of the Dollars' from the collection Within the Tides 1915. The dramatized version of the story was completed in December 1921 but as John Galsworthy notes in his preface to the later publication of the play in Laughing Anne & One Day More it presents physical drawbacks which will not go down on the stage. The play was never represented"" Cagle. Cagle A59. Bookplate on box.Some mild toning to cloth box book fine. hardcover
1921rif. 33436London: William Heinemann 1921. 20 volumes. The scarce and handsome Autograph Edition SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY JOSEPH CONRAD. Tall 8vo in the publisher's original tan buckram cloth over brown paper covered boards the spines lettered in black the upper covers with autograph of Conrad in black. A very good and handsome set some mellowing to the spine panels and other light evidence of age a few spots here or there still a pleasing and handsome set. A pleasing autographed set of Conrad's works. The tasteful presentation is fitting to this master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. His stories and novels many with nautical settings depict the trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive inscrutable universe. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors including F. Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway André Malraux George Orwell Graham Greene Gabriel García Márquez John le Carré V. S. Naipaul Philip Roth J. M. Coetzee and Salman Rushdie. William Heinemann hardcover
1917rif. 1091641917. First Edition. CONRAD Joseph. The Shadow Line: A Confession. London: J.M. Dent & Sons 1917. Octavo original gray-green cloth decorated in red original dust jacket. $1900.First edition of this autobiographical novel based on ConradÕs 1888 first command. A lovely copy in the scarce original dust jacket.Of this book Conrad has written: ""This story has been in my mind for some years. Originally I used to think of it under the name of First Command. When I managed in the second year of war to concentrate my mind sufficiently to begin working I turned to this subject as the easiest. But in consequence of my changed mental attitude to it it became The Shadow Line."" This novel tells the story of an extraordinary experience of Conrad's first command as Captain of the Otago while bound from Bangkok to Australia. It was on January 5 1888 while at Singapore that Conrad suddenly decided to throw up his berth on the Vidar and while preparing to return to Europe in search of a ship circumstances unexpectedly put him in the way of just what he wantedÑthe command of a sailing vessel Keating 263-64. First serialized in The English Review September 1916-March 1917. ""The English Review version was substantially revisedÉ Conrad continued polishing while reading proofÉ Possibly by the time he returned these to Dent it was too late to forward the corrections to Doubleday Page. In any event these final changes are incorporated in the English but not the American edition"" Cagle. With 18 pages of publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Cagle A21.a.1. Keating 119. Book fine scarce original dust jacket usually not present with shallow chipping to ends of mildly toned spine front and rear panels clean and bright very good. A very nice copy in unrestored original dust jacket. hardcover
1895rif. 1100761895. First Edition. CONRAD Joseph. Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River. London: T. Fisher Unwin 1895. Octavo original green cloth top edge gilt uncut. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. $2400.First edition first state of Conrad's scarce first book one of only 2000 copies printed.It was after meeting the real ""Olmeijer"" in East Borneo in 1887 that Conrad began working on what was to become his first novel which he finished six years later in 1894 he was also active as a seaman during most of this period. He submitted the completed manuscript to Unwin for consideration as part of their ""Pseudonym Library"" adopting the pseudonym ""Kamudi"" Malayan for ""rudder"". However Unwin's reader Edward Garnett saw the manuscript's promise and accepted it for separate publication under Conrad's own name. Almayer's Folly was not published serially and makes its first appearance in print here. This copy first state with the letters missing from the last two lines of page 110 and the period missing after the headline on page 43. Cagle A1a.1. Bookplate.Interior generally clean text block expertly reinforced original cloth with mild discoloration along upper edges. An extremely good copy of Conrad's scarce first book in the original cloth. hardcover
1919rif. 1091631919. First Edition. CONRAD Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. A Story between Two Notes. London: T. Fisher Unwin 1919. Octavo original green cloth original dust jacket. $3500.First English edition the first edition complete with Conrad's corrections in scarce unrestored dust jacket.Written from 1917-18 Conrad's Arrow of Gold earned high praise on publication as richly poetic and ""tense dramatic vibrant with the thrill of a great passionÉ written in that intensely individual flexible style which renders this man of Polish birth one of the most distinguished among the living writers of English"" New York Times Book Review. Critics have since noted that ""in no other book does Conrad work quite so steadily as a painter in prose"" Wiley Conrad's Measure of Man 163 achieving a narrative complexity that fully embodies ""the use of self-consciously aesthetic ways of seeing"" Stape 147. Conrad would himself write that Arrow of Gold arose from subjects first considered in his youth. ""I was conscious of it through all the years of my writing life but I was reluctant to take it upÉ It was only in 1917 that I brought myself to consider it seriously"" Wise 40. Conrad strongly objected to the novel's ""early publication in America"" but failure to negotiate serial rights there led to the publisher's insistence on an April 1919 printing before Conrad's corrections could be incorporated into the text. First English edition complete with Conrad's corrections not present in the American edition issued four months prior. With Cagle's ""a"" binding ""c"" endpapers ""b"" dust jacket with gold arrow on front panel and spine: no clear priority established. Serially printed in England's Lloyd's Magazine December 1918-February 1920. Cagle A38b. Wise 41. Book clean and very nearly fine. Unrestored dust jacket often not present toned at spine and edges with light edge-wear to spine ends tiny snag to rear panel extremely good. hardcover
rif. 8177Liège, Union liégeoise du livre et de lestampe, 1934.33 x 25 cm, En feuilles, couv. imprimée et rempliée, chemise et emboîtage déditeur. Un des 75 exemplaires sur vélin à la forme Van Gelder destinés aux membres de lunion liégeoise (n°39 imprimé pour Henry Leclercq). Illustré de 41 lithographies de Mambour (complet). Étui avec de légères traces de frottement, exemplaire non coupé et intérieur très frais. Formé à lAcadémie des Beaux-Arts de Liège, Auguste Mambour, second prix de Rome en 1922. Il séjourne au Congo Belge de 1923 à 1926. Ce séjour sera déterminant pour lensemble de son oeuvre. En effet, tenté par lexpérience cubiste il en trouve un écho dans les « Sculptures vivantes » quil contemple en Afrique.
rif. 8177Liège, Union liégeoise du livre et de lestampe, 1934.33 x 25 cm, En feuilles, couv. imprimée et rempliée, chemise et emboîtage déditeur. Un des 75 exemplaires sur vélin à la forme Van Gelder destinés aux membres de lunion liégeoise (n°39 imprimé pour Henry Leclercq). Illustré de 41 lithographies de Mambour (complet). Étui avec de légères traces de frottement, exemplaire non coupé et intérieur très frais. Formé à lAcadémie des Beaux-Arts de Liège, Auguste Mambour, second prix de Rome en 1922. Il séjourne au Congo Belge de 1923 à 1926. Ce séjour sera déterminant pour lensemble de son oeuvre. En effet, tenté par lexpérience cubiste il en trouve un écho dans les « Sculptures vivantes » quil contemple en Afrique.
1913rif. 7408Methuen & Co. Ltd. London.1913. Spurrious First edition. Actually the fourth impression with a cancel title page stating " First Published 1913" on verso on the title page stub. 8vo. 7.7 x 5.3 inches. 8 page publishers advert dated Autumn 1913. A very good copy in publishers green cloth binding with spine decorated and lettered in gilt including the correct spelling of the publishers name at the bottom. Signed by Joseph Conrad on the front free endpaper Dated 1923. The top of the signed leaf and the half title page have a small indentation where a paper clip has been used.Aside from some light rubbing to the extremities this is a very good tight copy the gilt on the spine still strong and bright. Loosely inserted is the front panel from the rare dustwrapper showing a full colour illustration by J. Dewar Mills within a grey border. The whole panel dark blue with grey title and author. An interesting copy signed by the author and with part of the wrapper of the less common 1913 Cancel title page issue. Copies with the true 1913 integral title are rare it is thought that only about fifty survived and most early copies were issued with cancel title pages dated 1914 - when the book was finally published.:. Methuen & Co. Ltd. London.,1913 hardcover
1925rif. 1307481925. CONRAD Joseph. Works. Garden City and New York 1925. Twenty-six volumes. Small octavo contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt raised bands top edges gilt uncut. $5500.Handsome set of the works of Joseph Conrad.Conrad did not publish his first novel until the age of 38 but his work earned him a place with the great modernists of the 20th-century ""among the very great novelists in the language"" Drabble 225. ""Conrad's work at its best achieved a synthesis of theme treatment and language of a kind without precedent in English literatureÉ Novelty of theme and the piquancy of a non-English origin established him as a romantic almost as a legendary figure. His stories had excitement of a new kind and his style by its very queerness could allureÉ powerfullyÉ achieving a perfect equilibrium of pictorial and narrative style"" DNB. Slight rubbing to corners of some volumes one headcap expertly repaired. An about-fine set handsomely bound. hardcover
1920rif. 1281441920. Signed. CONRAD Joseph. The Works. Twenty-two volumes. WITH: JEAN-AUBRY G. Life and Letters. Two volumes. Garden City: Doubleday Page; Doubleday Doran 1920-28. Altogether twenty-four volumes. Octavo contemporary three-quarter dark brown morocco gilt raised bands top edges gilt uncut. $12800.Signed limited ""Sun-Dial Edition"" of Conrad's works number 651 of 735 sets including the two-volume Life and Letters signed in the first volume by Conrad handsomely bound by Stikeman.""Conrad's work at its best achieved a synthesis of theme treatment and language of a kind without precedent in English literatureÉ To a degree beyond the ordinary he owed his fame to the good fortune of a remarkable life-story which enabled him to use as material for fiction many strange and picturesque experiences"" DNB. With photographic frontispiece portraits of Conrad in Almayer's Folly and each of the volumes of Life and Letters. Interior fine spines evenly sunned to light brown; expert repairs to bindings of several volumes primarily joints and spine ends. A near-fine set. hardcover
