Conrad, Joseph

4to, first edition, one of 25 copies, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his friend Richard Curle ("Richard Curle | from | Joseph Conrad | 1919.") on preliminary blank, original red heavy wove paper wrappers printed in black on upper cover, collector's blue cloth chemise and blue morocco-backed slipcase

Richard Curle, authorial inscription, his sale, American Art Association, 28 April 1927, lot 98; E.E. Taylor, bookplate in chemise

Cagle A30

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A fine copy of one of Clement Shorter's privately printed pamphlets. The work is sub-titled "a note on the joint protectorate of the Western Powers and Russia" and the text, prompted by the author's friendship with Jozef H. Retinger who had prompted Conrad's concern for the fate of wartime Poland, was sent to the British Foreign Office in London in 1916. The text is printed here for the first time. It was later included in Notes on Life and Letters.

For a note on Richard Curle, a close friend of Conrad's in the final decade of his life, see lot 66.