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CONRAD, JOSEPH.
Collected Works. Memorial Edition.
23 volumes. Titles
in blue and black. Inserted frontispieces. 8vo, contemporary parchment pictorial gilt, top
edges gilt, others uncut, usual discoloration to boards, occasional rubbing to extremities
with a few spine heads nicked or split; printed dust jackets, original glassine under-wrap-
pers, small chips to spine panel tips on majority of volumes though only affecting lettering
to three, first volume with spine panel separated and in two pieces; Ninah May Holden
Cummer bookplates to front pastedowns.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925-26
[1,000/1,500]
NUMBER
9
OF AN EDITION OF
499
COPIES
,
THIS ONE OF
99
COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
.
Originally the set was to have been limited to 377 copies, all signed. However, Conrad died before the
set was completed, and signed only ninety-
nine of the limitation pages. These were
incorporated into special sets of the Memorial
Edition, which ran to 499 copies. Scarce in
dust jackets.
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CONRAD, JOSEPH.
Tales of
Hearsay.
8vo, publisher’s green cloth,
spine gilt dulled a bit; dust jacket, tanned,
heaviest to spine panel, few short closed
tears, unclipped; endleaves toned; cloth
chemise and
1
/
4
morocco slipcase, worn.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
.
London:T. Fisher Unwin, (1925)
[400/600]
WITH
-
Tales of Unrest. Title printed in red
and black. 8vo, original decorative cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, slightly shaken; bookplate and
penciled ownership signature. First American edition. NY, 1898.
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CONRAD, JOSEPH.
Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories.
Half-title.
32 pages advertisements at end. 8vo, original pale green cloth, decorated and titled in black
on front cover, spine gilt lettered and decorated in black, slightly cocked, light rubbing to
corners and spine tips, minor foxing to top and fore-edges; Edward Joseph Dent bookplate
to front pastedown;
1
/
4
leather custom clamshell case.
Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1902
[1,800/2,500]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE
with advertisements dated “10/02.” Conrad’s story collection that
includes “Heart of Darkness.” Ex-collection Cambridge musicologist Dent, friend of E.M. Forster
and the basis for one of the novelist’s characters in Where Angels Fear to Tread. Laid-in is a photo-
graph of Conrad taking a sun sight with sextant on the bridge of the Tuscania, on his trip from
Glasgow to America in April, 1923.Wise 10; Ehrsam p.326.
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