Conrad, Joseph

8vo, second printing, six half-tone plates after Maurice Greiffenhagen, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end, original dark green smooth cloth printed in orange on spine and pictorially stamped in grey and orange on upper cover, collector's green morocco-backed folding case, extremities rubbed, crease to spine, scuffing to lower cover; with a tipped-in autograph letter by Conrad to an unidentified recipient, concerning the publication by Doubleday in the "Deep Sea" edition of his plays The Secret Agent and One Day More ("...There is no other edition of the play. But before long D[oubleday]. P[age] & Co. will publish in the Deep Sea edition a vol containing my plays...The date of that publication is not arranged yet however..."), 2 pages, 8vo, on headed stationery ("Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent"), Bishopsbourne, 28 March 1922

Pierre S. DuPont, his sale, Christie's New York, 8 October 1991, lot 50

Collected Letters, VII, p.438

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The American first edition, of which this is the only slightly later second printing, is dated a year before the first English edition. The illustrations contained here were previously used for the English serialization in the Pall Mall Magazine. Conrad's famous novella ranks as one of the most celebrated fictionalized accounts of a storm in all literature. The identity of the recipient of the much later tipped-in letter by Conrad is unknown.