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1925Best.-Nr. 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
1920Best.-Nr. 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
1917Best.-Nr. 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 books
1895Best.-Nr. 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 books
1923Best.-Nr. 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 books
1919Best.-Nr. 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
1995Best.-Nr. UGERSCH00acmfMcGraw-Hill 1995. Very Good. Germano Joseph E. Schaum's Outline Series: Italian Grammar. Schmitt Conrad j. NY: McGraw-Hill 1995. 283pp. Indexed. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping and yellowing. McGraw-Hill paperback books
1987Best.-Nr. UCONSCH00sndMcGraw-Hill 1987. Very Good. Consonni Clark Fiorenza. Schaum's Outline of Italian Vocabulary. Schmitt Conrad j. NY: McGraw-Hill 1987. 237pp. Illustrated. Glossary. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with creased front wrap and rubbed and bumped edges. Page margins sunned. McGraw-Hill paperback books
2006Best.-Nr. 46189Tempe Arizona: The RGU Group 2006. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Inscribed first printing of this story of Penny Pack Rat a desert-dwelling rodent who must outsmart a group of coyotes to win a special silver spoon for her grandmother. 9'' x 10.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped $15.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 32 pages. Inscribed by Storad to title page dated 2008. Jacket with a touch of edgewear. Sharp and bright. The RGU Group unknown books
2008Best.-Nr. 10870666McGraw-Hill/Glencoe 2008-01-02. hardcover. Poor. 8x1x11. Ex-School copy. Has heavy markings on the outside school stamps and names inside. Still usable but not prettyOver 1000000 satisfied customers since 1997! Choose expedited shipping if available for much faster delivery. Delivery confirmation on all US orders. McGraw-Hill/Glencoe hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 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
1920Best.-Nr. 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
1917Best.-Nr. 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
1895Best.-Nr. 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
1923Best.-Nr. 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
1919Best.-Nr. 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
2004Best.-Nr. DADAX0078663652McGraw-Hill/Glencoe 2004-04-01. Bilingual. hardcover. New. 8.80x1.10x10.90. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. McGraw-Hill/Glencoe hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 017376London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1929. Book measures 17.5x11.5.cm. 3032pp. Bound in original publishers brown leather with gilt design on top board and spine lettering in black and gilt top gilt edges brown endpapers. Some wear on edges. Binding in very good clean condition. Internally pages near fine. A very nice copy. . Essex Edition. Leather. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Methuen & Co. Ltd
1927Best.-Nr. 017375London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1927. Book measures 17.5x11.5.cm. 351pp. Bound in original publishers brown leather with gilt design on top board and spine lettering in black and gilt top gilt edges brown endpapers. Some minor wear on edges. Binding in near fine condition. Internally pages near fine. A very nice copy. . Twenty Second Edition. Leather. Very Good Plus Near Fine. 8vo. Methuen & Co. Ltd
1985Best.-Nr. 016212London: The Eighteen Nineties Society 1985. Limited to 550 copies this being 1 of 50 copies numbered A1-A50. Book measures 22x14.5.cm. Bound in original publishers white gilt cloth. Binding in near fine copy. Dust jacket has minor wear. Jacket in very good clean condition. Internally pages near fine. A very nice copy. . Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo. The Eighteen Nineties Society Hardcover
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