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Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) | First Editions
1857 - 1924
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer, regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Conrad joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.
Conrad's stories often revolve around a nautical setting, and depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. For this reason, Conrad is considered an early modernist - though his works still contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, such as T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, and Salman Rushdie.
See below our stock of Joseph Conrad First Editions, fine bindings, and sets.
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An Outcast of the Islands.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. [Literature] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 336 [10]. Publisher's green cloth, designs blocked in red, black, and gilt to upper and spine. Publisher's advertisements to rear. Internally clean and lightly toned. Typographic bookplate of Christopher Clark Geest to front pastedown..... More
The Rover.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 317 [9]. With the textual error ' o' for 'go', p. 221, line 2. Publisher's green cloth hardcovers in original dust-jacket priced at 7/6. No inscriptions. One corner bumped, gilt a trifle toned. A clean copy of..... More
The Rover.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [Literature] FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the signed limited issue. Finely bound. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8]; 286. Handsomely bound for Asprey's of London in full straight-grained morocco, gilt, with marbled endpapers, a.e.g. A lovely fine copy, inside and out. Set in the south of France..... More
The Secret Agent.
London: Methuen and Co., 1907. [Landmark Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 442; [1], imprint; [1], blank; [40], advertisement catalogue dated September 1907. Bound in publisher's burgundy coloured cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Edges of text block toned, binding a little shelf worn..... More
A Set of Six.
London: Methuen and Co., 1908. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 310 [2] 40. Advertisements to rear. Publisher's blue cloth, titles blocked in brown to upper board, gilt titles to spine. Blue 'presentation copy' stamp to title page. Bottom edge uncut. Light toning throughout, spotting..... More
Suspense. With an Introduction by Richard Curle.
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1925. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. ix; 303; 4 [advertisements]. Bound in publisher's purple textured cloth, with blind ruling to front board, publisher's logo blind stamped to front board, title in dull gilt to spine, top edge coloured dark green. In a pictorial..... More
Suspense. With an Introduction by Richard Curle.
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1925. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. ix; 303; 4 [advertisements]. Bound in publisher's purple textured cloth, with blind ruling to front board, publisher's logo blind stamped to front board, title in gilt to spine, top edge coloured dark green. Contents clean, single ink..... More
Suspense. With an Introduction by Richard Curle.
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1925. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.ix; 303; 4 [advertisements]. Bound in publisher's purple textured cloth, with blind ruling to front board, publisher's logo blind stamped to front board, title in gilt to spine, top edge coloured dark green, dust-wrapper illustrated..... More
Tales of Unrest.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 297; [1]; imprint; [14], advertisements. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Owner name to flyleaf, contents shaken within case, inside paper joint cracked, gilt dulled, cloth handled. Very good..... More
Typhoon.
London: Heinemann, 1924. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression binding A. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 304; [32], ads. Bound in publisher's slate grey cloth with gilt 'lifebelt' motif to front board, gilt titles to spine, edges untrimmed. No inscriptions, contents clean, edges of text block gently toned, inside paper..... More
Victory.
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1915. [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, fist issue title page with comma following 'Essex Street'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 415; [1], imprint; [4], ads dated 'Autumn 1915'; 32, catalogue dated 8/5/15. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Large open tear to bottom..... More
The Works of Joseph Conrad. Including: The Nigger of the Narcissus, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Youth, etc.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1920. [Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 24 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16cm). Frontispiece photogravure to volume one, vignette 'Sundial' illustration to title page of each volume, which features text printed in two colours. Handsomely bound in half dark blue oasis morocco with..... More
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