APG 154.2 (2004)
ConradJ.pdf. Item #22769 More
ConradJ.pdf. Item #22769 More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., (1919). First UK edition, preceded the same year by the U.S. edition. "T. Fisher Unwin" at base of spine, white wove endpapers, headpiece intact p.67. Contemporary gift inscription, endpapers a bit darkened, few tiny nicks in cloth at head of spine which also shows a...... Item #53859 More
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1924. First U.S. appearance, first edition thus. One of the last essays written by Conrad before his death. This U.S. appearance is preceded only by the very limited separate edition privately published in the UK in only 30 copies in January 1924. Later collected in..... Item #71773 More
London: Heinemann, 1901. First UK edition. Conrad and Ford's collaborative quasi-science-fiction novel exploring a societal shift in power. Two volumes: the first issue without dedication page [Cagle A6(3)a] together with a copy of the seldom seen remainder issue [Cagle A6(4)]. FIRST ISSUE is in Cagle's binding "a" with top edge..... Item #53845 More
London: Heinemann, (1926). Second impression, published just one month after the first. INSCRIBED "To Walter & Caroline Pilcher, affectionately from Jessie Conrad/ April 1928." Caroline Pilcher was the widow of Arthor Marwood, a friend of both Conrad's and Ford Madox Ford (Ford is said to have based his Christopher Tietjens..... Item #71772 More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. First edition. Letters written to his closest friend and fellow novelist. Translated from the French and edited by John A. Gee and Paul J. Sturm. Small 4to blue cloth boards with gilt-stamped spine; 147 pages including appendices and index; illustrated with a few facsimile..... Item #71774 More
London: Methuen, (1906). First edition. Essays recounting memories and impressions from his time at sea. 8vo green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, top edge gilt, rest untrimmed; 40-page publisher’s catalog dated August 1906, which Cagle calls the first issue. Minor wear on corners and spine ends and spine a bit darkened but..... Item #53770 More
London: Heinemann, 1898. First UK edition. His third book, a novella partly based on his experiences during a voyage from Bombay to London. Preceded by the 1897 U.S. edition issued as CHILDREN OF THE SEA. Serialized in London's The New Review as "The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’; a Tale of..... Item #53745 More
London: Fisher Unwin, 1896. First edition. With the typographical errors, as called for. His second novel; inspired by his experience as chief mate of a small steamer. Basis for the 1951 film of the same name. 8vo green cloth, lower edge rough trimmed, top edge gilt. About very good with..... Item #53743 More
No-place: Ridgway Company, 1919-1920. First U.S. edition thus: the first appearance in the U.S. as a seven-part serialization in "Romance" magazine preceding the book publication. Preceded only by the 1919 UK serialization in "Land and Water" magazine. "Romance" was a short-lived venture edited by Arthur Sullivan Hoffman and intended as..... Item #54532 More
Garden City: Doubleday Page, 1923. First American edition. Gift inscription, slight foxing on top edge, and dark blue cloth a bit rubbed on corners, otherwise very good or better in dust jacket tanned on spine and with minor chipping on corners and spine ends. Item #42919 More
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1923. First edition, limited issue. Number 245 of 1,000 SIGNED, numbered and specially bound copies. Play based on his 1907 book of the same name. Spine a little tanned otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket with internal archival-tape repair to split..... Item #53797 More
London: Methuen, (1908). First edition. Includes "Gaspar Ruiz," "The Informer," "The Brute," "An Anarchist," "The Duel," and "Il Conde." Half-title and title page canceled and pasted on stub, as usually seen (only 2 to 4 copies with integral pages believed to be extant). One of 2,500 copies in the domestic..... Item #53741 More
London: The English Review, 1912. First edition. First appearance of Conrad’s essay in the periodical founded by his friend and sometimes collaborator, Ford Madox Ford . Later collected as “Certain Aspects of the Admirable Inquiry into the Loss of the Titanic” in NOTES ON LIFE AND LETTERS (1921) and issued..... Item #71857 More
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First edition. Published in the U.S. later the same month as A PERSONAL RECORD. Conrad's autobiography "with a fictional slant." 8vo gilt-stamped blue cloth boards. Very good with front hinge just starting at first blank, flattened crease in front pastedown, covers lightly rubbed,and corners and spine..... Item #53951 More
London: Heinemann, 1903. First UK edition. Publisher’s windmill device on title page, without "Reserved for the Colonies only" on verso of title page, and with publisher's monogram on rear cover. One of only 1500 copies. The first publication in book form of all the stories except the title novella "Typhoon,"..... Item #53768 More
London: Methuen, 1911. First edition. Conrad labored for several years over this work, which was written after the failed Russian Revolution of 1905. He suffered a nervous breakdown after delivering it to his publisher, of which his wife, Jessie Conrad, wrote: "he lives mixed up in the scenes and holds..... Item #53740 More
London: Methuen, (1915). First UK edition, preceded by the U.S. but with Conrad's "Author's Note" to this edition not included in the U.S. The rare first state of the title page, which is integral, with comma after "Essex Street" in the publisher's address. Four pages of publisher's ads at rear..... Item #53771 More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1915. First edition. The last collection of Conrad's stories to be published during his lifetime. A near fine copy of the book with only a little darkening to endpapers; in dust jacket lacking the spine portion and with internal archival tape repair but..... Item #53761 More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. First edition thus: illustrated by Robert Shore. Number 316 of 1,500 numbered copies SIGNED BY Shore and Ward Ritchie, who designed and printed the book. Introduction by Leo Gurko. 4to gilt-stamped quarter blue leather; blue sailcloth-covered boards; 9 color plates, including frontis. Fine in..... Item #72125 More