Conrad, Joseph

Within the Tides, 1916, first American edition, presumed second printing [Cagle A18b(2): no copy located], ownership signature to second blank, splitting at upper hinge, leather chipped at head and base of spine and rubbed at spine and extremities

The Secret Agent, 1916, first American edition, second printing [not in Cagle], small stain to fore-edges, upper cover detached, extremities of spine chipped



[with Ford Madox Hueffer:] Romance, 1914, first Doubleday, Page & Company printing from the setting of the first American edition [see Cagle, p.97], presentation copy inscribed by the author ("Mrs Cadby for the disabled officer's [sic] Library from J. Conrad 1916") on the front free endpaper, splitting at gutter before half-title, leather rubbed and re-coloured at edges, spine faded and with repairs to small chips at extremities



The Shadow Line, 1917, first American edition, second printing [Cagle A21b(2)], presentation copy inscribed by the author ("H.F.T. Cooper with compliments and thanks from Joseph Conrad June 1917.") on first blank, bumped, spine and upper part of upper cover faded, extremities rubbed



The Shadow Line, 1917, first American edition, second printing [Cagle A21b(2)], presentation copy inscribed by the author ("Tola Retiger with love from Joseph Conrad 1917"), slightly skewed, extremities rubbed



Typhoon, 1922, later edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his physician Douglas Whitehead Reid ("D.W.R. from J.C."), dust-jacket, jacket chipped and with a small piece torn from the front panel, otherwise a bright copy



The Rover, 1923, "Deep Sea" format edition published simultaneously with the first trade edition [not in Cagle], presentation copy inscribed by the author to his Kent neighbour Audrey Vinten ("Audrey Vinten from J. Conrad. 1923.")



all 8vo, original blue-green limp leather lettered in gilt on spine and with design on upper cover, top edges gilt, illustrated endpapers (7)

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Jozef Retinger (1888-1960) was a Polish literary scholar who had been introduced to Conrad by Arnold Bennett in 1912. A visit to the Retingers' farm near Krakow during a trip to Poland coincided famously with the outbreak of World War I, the Conrads narrowly escaping internment in Krakow. In 1916, at Retinger's instigation, Conrad published A Note on the Polish Problem. In 1941 Retinger published an evocative memoir of the author: Conrad and his Contemporaries: Souvenirs.