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Lot 316
  • 316

Conrad, Joseph

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Conrad, Joseph
  • A collection of works in translation, comprising:
  • paper
Typhon (translated by André Gide). Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, 1918, one of 300 copies; Another edition. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, 1923, one of 100 copies; Another edition. Paris: Gallimard, 1923–La folie-Almayer. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, 1919, 4to, one of 100 copies–Sous les yeux d’orient. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1920, 4to, one of 940 copies; Another copy–En marge des marées. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921, 4to, one of 800 copies–Lord Jim. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, 1922, one of 800 copies–Des souvenirs. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, 1924, 4to, one of lettered 8 copies, unopened, upper hinge coming away; Another copy, 8vo, one of 750 copies–Jeunesse suivi du Coeur des ténèbres. Paris: Gallimard, 1925, one of 900 copies–[With Ford Madox Ford]. L’Aventure (Romance). Paris: Simon Kra, 1926, one of 60 large-paper copies on Hollande, lithographed frontispiece; another copy, one of 500–Nostromo. Paris: Gallimard, 1926, 2 volumes, one of 14 copies lettered A to N (volume 2 hors commerce); Another copy, one of 900 copies–Gaspar Ruiz (A Set of Six). Paris: Gallimard, 1927, 4to, one of 9 lettered copies; Another copy. 8vo, one of 980 copies–La flèche d’or. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, 1928, 4to, one of 10 lettered copies; another copy, 8vo, one of 700 copies–Entre terre et mer. Paris: Gallimard, 1929, one of 700 copies; Another copy, ex series–La ligne d’ombre. Paris: Gallimard, 1929, one of 750 copies–Le Frère-de-la-côte. Paris: Gallimard, 1928, one of 950 copies–Fortune. Paris: Gallimard, 1933, one of 30 copies hors commerce, presentation copy inscribed by the translator–Un héros polonais de Conrad. Le prince roman. Maestrict: A.A.M. Stols, 1933, 4to, one of 400 copies–Le Miroir de la mer. Paris: Gallimard, 1946, presentation copy from the translator, contemporary cloth, original wrappers bound in–Falk. Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1994–Le Nègre du “Narcisse”. Paris: Hachette, [n.d.], original cloth, browned; Another edition. Paris: Brodart et Taupin, [c.1965]

8vo, original wrappers (most with glassine) except where stated



 

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