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1919ref. 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 books
ref. 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.
ref. 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.
1913ref. 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
1925ref. 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
1925ref. 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 books
1920ref. 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
1920ref. 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 books
