[Conrad, Joseph]

1) Lord Jim. A Tale. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906 [1905], fourth impression, signed by the author ("Joseph Conrad") and containing Ottoline Morrell's monogram ("OM") and her record of her dates of reading ("Lausanne Feb 1912 23-26. Garsington March 1918.") on the front free endpaper, the volume further containing her extensive pencil markings and, on the rear endpapers, a long list of her notes, light green smooth cloth, browning to endpapers, joints weak, spine faded; 2) Typhoon and other stories. London: William Heinemann, 1907, third impression, ownership signature to front free endpaper ("Ottoline Morrell Lausanne. Oct. 1912"), signature written first in pencil and overwritten in ink, grey smooth cloth, spine browned, light soiling to covers; 3) Almayer's Folly. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896, "second edition", signed by Morell on the front free endpaper ("OM Lausanne Feb 26 1912 16 Fitzroy Square April 17-18 1928"), Unwin's Colonial Library advertisement to verso of half-title, dark green vertically ribbed cloth, a few small stains to covers, spine faded; 4) An Outcast of the Islands. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907, "new edition", inscribed in ink and pencil with Ottoline Morrell's ownership monogram and her dates of reading ("OM Lausanne Feb 28- Fitzroy Square April 16 18 28"), dark green vertically ribbed cloth, light soiling to covers; 5) Tales of Unrest. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909, second impression, with Ottoline Morrell's ownership monogram in pencil ("OM") on the front free endpaper, red cloth, offsetting to endpapers, splitting at upper hinge, covers slightly bowed; 6) 'Twixt Land & Sea Tales. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1920, fifth printing, signed by Ottoline Morrell on the front free endpaper, green cloth, spine faded; 7) The Nature of a Crime. London: Duckworth, 1924, first edition, ownership monogram and her date of reading on title-page, orange cloth, spine faded; all 8vo

Lady Ottoline Morrell (ownership inscription); Christie's London, 1 November 2006, lot 24

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The socialite and literary patron Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (1873-1938) first met Conrad, through an introduction from Henry James, at the author's Kent house in August 1913. Her effusive reaction was recorded in her Early Memoirs (p.241): "He made me feel so natural and very much myself, that I was almost afraid of losing the thrill and wonder of being there, although I was vibrating with intense excitement inside".