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Lot 29
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Conrad, Joseph

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Conrad, Joseph
  • Under Western Eyes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911.
  • ink, paper
8vo (187 x 127 mm). Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth; fine. Original rare orange and black illustrated dust-jacket; some rubbing along folds and at extremities, some minor fading. Clamshell case.

Literature

Cagle A14c.

Catalogue Note

first u.s. edition. The text for this edition was taken from the North American Review and so differs from the author's revisions to the first English proofs.  Very difficult to find in jacket, even the Seeger copy was restored whereas the present example really requires none.