<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a> of Lord Jim by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Joseph%20Conrad&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Conrad</a>.<ul><li>Joseph Conrad (Polish-British).</li><li>Edinburgh and London:&nbsp;William Blackwood and Sons,&nbsp;1900.</li><li>452 pages.</li><li>Original green cloth binding with black lettering, fore-edge machine deckle.</li></ul> "'Nothing can touch me,' he said in a last flicker of superb egoism." On a quest to forget about his cowardly actions during a crisis at sea, Jim lands at a remote port in the South Seas, where he becomes a community leader but eventually sacrifices his life for moral redemption. Many of Conrad's works, still steeped in a white European perspective, nevertheless grapple with race and colonialism in a more skeptical way than most of his white contemporaries, and Lord Jim is no exception. Historian Elleke Boehmer contrasts Lord Jim to Rudyard Kipling's Kim, published a year later, noting that Conrad voices deep concern about British colonialism while Kipling's support of the Empire shows through in his narrative; Lord Jim, she notes, "can be seen as a defining tale of the doubt which threatened the project of European expansion."

Lord Jim First Edition

A limited, signed edition of the works of Joseph Conrad.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 24 volumes.</li><li>Joseph Conrad (Polish-British).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Doubleday, Page, &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1920.</li><li>Portrait frontispiece.&nbsp;</li><li>Limited to 735 copies of which this is 583.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound by James Macdonald Co. in three-quarters tan morocco and green linen boards, the covers and raised band spines are gilt-tooled with nautical details on the spine, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Works Of Joseph Conrad

A first edition copy of one of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Joseph%2520Conrad" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Conrad's</a> best <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/literature-and-childrens/novels" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">novels</a>, a thriller depicting terrorism in Edwardian London.<ul><li>Joseph Conrad (Polish-English).</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co, (1907).&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original full red cloth, spine stamped with coral and seashell design and lettered in gilt. Bottom edge uncut.&nbsp;</li></ul>

The Secret Agent

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first impression of The Secret Agent by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Joseph+Conrad&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Conrad</a>.<ul><li>Joseph Conrad (Polish-British).</li><li>London: Methuen, 1907.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>First issue with 40 page publisher's catalog (dated September 1907) at end.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's red cloth, titles to spine gilt.</li></ul> Conrad’s thriller was based on a true incident from the late nineteenth century - a bombing in Greenwich Park. His treatment of the psychology of his protagonists in this novel is truly one of his greatest achievements. A Haycraft Queen cornerstone.

The Secret Agent First Edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> limited edition of the Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Joseph+Conrad&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Conrad</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 20 volumes.</li><li>Joseph Conrad (Polish-British).</li><li>The Works of Joseph Conrad. [Including] Almayer’s Folly and Tales of Unrest; An Outcast of the Islands; The Nigger of the Narcissus and Typhoon; Lord Jim; Youth and Two Other Stories; Romance Nostromo; The Secret Agent and The Inheritors; A Set of Six; Under Western Eyes; A Personal Record and The Mirror of the Sea; ‘twixt Land and Sea Tales; Chance; The Shadow-Line and Within the Tides; Victory; The Arrow of Gold; The Rescue; Notes on Life and Letters; The Rover; Suspense.</li><li>London: William Heinemann, 1921.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Number 662 of 750 sets thus.</li><li>Signed by the author in blue ink to the limitation page.</li><li>Finely printed in good-sized type on fine hand-made paper, recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin red labels, gilt ruling to spines, and marbled paper over boards, all edges untrimmed.</li></ul> The English equivalent of the complete works published in the US by Doubleday, Page and Company in 24 volumes in 1920, which features a new preface by the author for each title, and a volume of Life and Letters.

The Works of Joseph Conrad Signed Limited Edition

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