Search results for: 'CONRAD, Joseph.'
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CONRAD, Joseph. Under Western Eyes.London : 1911
Second edition, published in the same month as the first. Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To A. & W. Rothenstein, affectionately from Joseph Conrad, 1911". With the recipient's bookplate on the front free endpaper. Rothenstein, an artist, was a friend and staunch supporter of Conrad, often loaning him money in light of his "chronic... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 84663
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Works.London : 1921
Signed limited edition, number 347 of 780 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume 1. The definitive collected works of Conrad, including his own notes on his writings prepared especially for this edition. A handsomely bound set. Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 125724
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CONRAD, Joseph. Victory.London : 1915
First UK edition, presentation copy inscribed on publication by Conrad, "To Caroline and Arthur Marwood from J. Conrad 1915" on the front free endpaper. Conrad met Arthur Marwood through their mutual friend Ford Madox Ford, who later based the hero of Parade's End, Christopher Tietjens, on Marwood's life and character.
Marwood was evidently a... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131484
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CONRAD, Joseph. The First and Last of Joseph Conrad.London : 1929
First collected edition, attractively bound. This omnibus brings together four novels by Conrad: "Almayer's Folly" (1895) and "An Outcast of the Islands" (1896) were his first two published works; "The Arrow of Gold" (1919) and "The Rover" (1923) were two of his last. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 146609
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CONRAD, Joseph. Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River.London : 1895
First edition, first impression. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 50029
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Rover.1923
First edition, first impression. Includes inserted slip advertising other books by the author. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 49402
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CONRAD, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands.London : 1896
First edition, first impression, of An Outcast of the Islands, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. W. T. Hornaday with the Author's most friendly regards. 22 March, 1896". Hornaday (1854-1937) was an American zoologist and conservationist who is credited with the preservation of a number of species including the North American... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 63484
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CONRAD, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands.1896
First edition, first impression. Learn More£700.00Stock Code: 66360
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Secret Agent.London : 1907
First edition, first impression, first issue with the 40 pages of inserted ads at the rear. One of Conrad's very best works - a stunning novel of detection, espionage and revolution. "The Secret Agent depicts the atmosphere of Edwardian London in a psychological thriller of the anarchist underworld. Conrad's wit and chivalrous magnanimity are at their... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 81060
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Secret Agent.London : 1907
First edition, first impression, first issue with the 40 pages of inserted ads dated September 1907 at the typograpical error, "be be" in the last line of p. 117. One of Conrad's very best works - a stunning novel of detection, espionage and revolution. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 86225
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Rover.London : 1923
First UK edition, first impression, of the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad. The UK edition was preceded only by the American limited edition. Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 144348
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes.Garden City, NY : 1923
The Deep Sea edition. Inscribed by Conrad on the front free endpaper, "D. W. R. from J. C.". The recipient, Douglas Whitehead Reed (1883-1930) qualified as a radiologist and surgeon in 1909. He was both senior surgeon at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and St. George's House, a nursing home in Canterbury. During the early 1920s he attended to the problems... Learn More£525.00Stock Code: 85073
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Secret Agent.Canterbury : 1921
First edition, one of 52 copies only privately printed, of Conrad's dramatization of his own novel (first published in 1907). Conrad subsequently revised the play into three acts before its first performance at the Ambassadors Theatre in November 1922 and publication in revised form in 1923. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123876
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CONRAD, Joseph. Under Western Eyes.London : 1911
First edition, presentation copy with a fine literary association, inscribed to John Galsworthy and his wife, Ada, on the front free endpaper, "To Jack and Ada with love from J. C. 1911". Conrad first met Galsworthy in 1893 on the sailing-ship Torrens. Galsworthy, bound for Cape Town, boarded the ship at Adelaide and encountered its first mate, the... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 48397
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Works.New York : 1920
The Sun-Dial Edition, number 241 of a limited edition of 750 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume I. A beautifully bound set. Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 68436
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Secret Agent.1907
First edition, first impression. One of Conrad's very best works - a stunning novel of detection, espionage and revolution. "The Secret Agent depicts the atmosphere of Edwardian London in a psychological thriller of the anarchist underworld. Conrad's wit and chivalrous magnanimity are at their airiest in this novel." (Connolly) Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 70386
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CONRAD, Joseph. Admiralty Paper.1925
Sole edition, number 52 of 93 copies only. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 50451
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Works.New York : 1924
The Canterbury edition. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 126125
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Works.Edinburgh & London : 1925
A handsomely bound set of Conrad's collected works. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 139269
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Secret Agent.London : 1920
Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Catherine Willard from her friend Joseph Conrad 1st Jan 1921". Catherine Willard (1898-1954) was a noted screen actress and leading lady. She met Conrad in about 1920 through her mother, Grace, who was an interior designer and helping the Conrads furnish their new home, Oswalds,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 93578
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Works.Garden City : 1920
The Sun-Dial Edition, number 35 of 735 sets signed by the author in the first volume. Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 131140
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CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. A Tale.Edinburgh and London : 1900
First edition in book form, first impression, with all the first issue points, including the misprints "anyrate" p. 77, l. 5, "cure" (instead of "cured") p. 226, 7 lines from the bottom, the omission of "keep" after "can" p. 226, 7 lines from the bottom, and "his" p. 319, last line, being printed below the line. The novel first appeared as a serial... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 120386
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CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. A Tale.Edinburgh and London : 1900
First edition in book form, first impression, with all the first issue points, including the misprints "anyrate" p. 77, l. 5, "cure" (instead of "cured") p. 226, 7 lines from the bottom, the omission of "keep" after "can" p. 226, 7 lines from the bottom, and "his" p. 319, last line, being printed below the line. The novel first appeared as a serial... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 137188
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold.1919
First English edition and first revised edition with corrections not incorporated in the American first edition. Signed "from Joseph Conrad 1919" on the half-title. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 48434
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CONRAD, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands.London : 1896
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,400.00Stock Code: 50019
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CONRAD, Joseph. Chance. A Tale in Two Parts.London : 1913
Spurious first edition, actually the fourth edition with stub-mounted cancel title page, signed by the author "J. Conrad 1923" on the front free endpaper. This book has a highly complicated publishing history due to a strike at the binders which delayed publication from autumn 1913 until spring 1914. The publishers chose to cancel the 1913 title pages... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 67881
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CONRAD, Joseph. On Stephen Crane.1932
One of an edition of 31 copies privately printed 27 July 1932 for the friends of Vincent Starrett and Edwin B. Hill. Starrett (1886-1974) was a Chicago reporter, bibliographer, author, and Sherlock Holmes expert. Hill was a Texas tax-assessor whose hobby was printing by hand. In 1939, on its 55th anniversary, his was the oldest private press in America.... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 48957
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus".London : 1898
First UK edition of the novel "generally regarded as Conrad's first masterpiece" (Drabble, p. 700), presented here in a handsome binding; it was originally published in America as The Children of the Sea (1897). The title character, and the book's hero, is James Wait, a West Indian sailor. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 38338
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Secret Agent.London : 1907
First edition, first impression, first issue with the 40 pages of inserted ads at the back. One of Conrad's very best works - a stunning novel of detection, espionage and revolution. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 71541
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Secret Agent.London : 1907
First edition, first impression, first issue with the 40 pages of inserted ads at the rear. A very nice copy, uncommon in such excellent condition. One of Conrad's very best works - a stunning novel of detection, espionage and revolution. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 87512
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CONRAD, Joseph. TyphoonLondon : 1903
First UK edition, first issue. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 77758
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CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim.Edinburgh and London : 1900
First edition, first impression, one of 2,105 copies printed. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 71079
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CONRAD, Joseph. Victory.London : 1915
First UK edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front endpaper, "To Sir Sidney and Lady Colvin with great affection from J.C. 1915". Sir Sidney Colvin had been Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge and Keeper in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum between 1884 and 1912. He was introduced to Conrad by... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 93580
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold.London : 1919
First edition, first impression, first issue bound without the front free endpaper. Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 112513
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CONRAD, Joseph. Within the Tides. Tales.1915
First edition, first impression. While not a rare book in dust jacket, copies in this condition, not split and unrepaired, are rare. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 49286
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CONRAD, Joseph. London's River.London : 1919
First separate edition, first impression. One of only 25 copies printed, by permission of the author, of Conrad's essay on the River Thames, which originally appeared in the London Magazine, July 1906. This is one of a number of short-run reprints issued by the journalist and magazine editor Clement Shorter around this time. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 66260
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CONRAD, Joseph. The RescueLondon & Toronto : 1920
First edition, first impression. A handsome copy. Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 70699
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CONRAD, Joseph. Chance. A Tale in Two Parts.New York : 1914
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Captain and Mrs. Wilson-Barker with the author's cordial regards. 1914". Wilson-Barker was Captain-Superintendent of the Naval Training College HMS Worcester from 1892 to 1919 and the author of the oft-reprinted Manual of Elementary Seamanship (1896). He first met... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 73628
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CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. A Tale.Edinburgh and London : 1900
First edition, first impression, a nice association copy, from the library of John Quinn (1870-1924) with his Jack Yeats-designed bookplate to the front pastedown. Quinn was a major supporter of Conrad throughout his career and an important collector of literary modernism and post-impressionism. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 126910
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Secret Agent. A Simple Tale.London : 1907
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 77613
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CONRAD, Joseph - KASTOS, Robert. Original portrait, ink on paper. Signed by the artist and inscribed by Conrad with a line from Victory.[Paris : early 1920s]
An original pen-and-ink portrait of Conrad, signed by the artist and inscribed by Conrad with a quotation from Victory: "'... and incompleteness of any sort leads to trouble' from 'Victory'" (p. 30). Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 60138
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CONRAD, Joseph - MÉGROZ, R. L. Joseph Conrad's Mind and Method.1931
First edition, first impression. Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 50706
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CONRAD, Joseph, & Ford M. Hueffer. The Inheritors:New York : 1901
First edition, first printing. Signed boldly by Joseph Conrad on the half-title. Although The Inheritors is "generally regarded as a science fiction tale of a group of people from another, apparently parallel, world who call themselves The Dimensionists" (Locke) it is also related to Heart of Darkness (serialised 1899, published in book form 1902) in... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 117097
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CONRAD, Joseph - GISSING, George. Two Letters.London : 1926
First and limited edition, first impression, one of 220 copies. Privately printed for the First Edition Club, this pamphlet was published as part of a 12-piece portfolio set titled Twenty Letters to Joseph Conrad. The letters are dated 25 December 1902 and 9 May 1903, and express Gissing's admiration of Conrad's writing: "This is your glorious power,... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 116777
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MANSELL, Joseph. SANDER, Henry Frederick Conrad Cattleya Superba Splendens.1888-1894
Beautiful orchid chromolithographs from Frederick Sander's Reichenbachia is considered by many to be the greatest illustrated work on orchids ever published. The publication, originally conceived and produced as a series of plates and descriptions was noted by Reinikka (1972) as "perhaps the greatest monument" to Henry Frederick Conrad Sander. The... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 67693
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MANSELL, Joseph. SANDER, Henry Frederick Conrad Laelia Autumnalis Xanthotropis.1888-1894
Beautiful orchid chromolithographs from Frederick Sander's Reichenbachia is considered by many to be the greatest illustrated work on orchids ever published. The publication, originally conceived and produced as a series of plates and descriptions was noted by Reinikka (1972) as "perhaps the greatest monument" to Henry Frederick Conrad Sander. The... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 67700
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MANSELL, Joseph. SANDER, Henry Frederick Conrad Dendrobium Superbiens.1888-1894
Beautiful orchid chromolithographs from Frederick Sander's Reichenbachia is considered by many to be the greatest illustrated work on orchids ever published. The publication, originally conceived and produced as a series of plates and descriptions was noted by Reinikka (1972) as "perhaps the greatest monument" to Henry Frederick Conrad Sander. The... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 67698
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MANSELL, Joseph. SANDER, Henry Frederick Conrad Cattleya Lawrenceana.1888-1894
Beautiful orchid chromolithographs from Frederick Sander's Reichenbachia is considered by many to be the greatest illustrated work on orchids ever published. The publication, originally conceived and produced as a series of plates and descriptions was noted by Reinikka (1972) as "perhaps the greatest monument" to Henry Frederick Conrad Sander. The... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 67699
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CONRAD, Joseph, & Ford Madox Hueffer. Romance1903
First edition, first impression, of the authors' second collaboration. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 34744
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SHAW, George Bernard. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets.London : 1905
First English language edition, first impression. This issue also contains works by Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, and Sidney Webb. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 73417
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ROTHENSTEIN, William. Twenty-Four Portraits.London : 1920
First edition, first impression of this collection of twenty-four portraits or authors, artists, and intellectuals by William Rothenstein, including Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, André Gide, Thomas Hardy, T. E. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells. Provenance: from the library of Conrad collector Stanley J. Seeger, with his bookplate. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 84657
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FORD, Ford Madox [formerly Ford Hermann Hueffer]. A Call: The Tale of Two Passions.London : 1910
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "'I have evolved what has been the guiding principle of my life: do what you want & take what you get for it.' 'And God in His mercy pardon the ills we do,' the priest said. 'I had forgotten that,' Grimshaw said. p. 216. A. P. Marwood from... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 122241
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VILLIERS, Alan. Sons of Sinbad.New York : 1940
Villiers's working copy of the first US edition, first printing, extensively marked up towards the revised edition of 1969 (a copy of which is included here), and inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: "Edited copy - property of Alan Villiers". Of his 40-odd books, this is probably the most desirable, which does very much what is suggested by... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 146241
