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Conrad, Jospeh
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- Well Done! London: Privately Printed by Clement Shorter, 1918
- paper, ink
4to. Original blue-grey heavy wove paper wrappers printed in black on upper wrapper; ink stain to lower wrapper. Housed in custom chemise, brown cloth over boards, spine with title and author in gilt.
Provenance
Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher (his bookplate to interior of slipcase) — Sotheby's London, 8-9 July 1968, lot 204
Literature
Cagle A24
Catalogue Note
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 25 COPIES privately printed by Shorter, "by kind permission of the Author for private distribution among my friends." The text reprints Conrad's three-part contribution to the Daily Chronicle for 22, 23 and 24 August 1918. The text was later reprinted within Notes on Life and Letters.