Conrad, Joseph

8vo, first edition, original dark blue linen cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, in the rare pictorial dust-jacket (first state, with price on inner flap corrected by overprinting the original figure with type ornaments), one small chip to jacket and some slight edge-wear to jacket, otherwise an exceptionally fine copy

Cagle A49a(1)

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A beautiful copy of Conrad's long laboured-over and continually revised work (for more details see lot 142). An earlier version of the novel was serialised in Land and Water between January and July 1919. This first book edition preceded the English edition by a month.