With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First English Edition, published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts, written while.....
A Smile of Fortune | The Secret Sharer | Freya of the Seven Isles. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1912. Original olive-green cloth. First Edition, second binding state (of three) -- the first generally-obtainable binding state. This collection of three tales is known primarily for the middle one, "The.....
London: Printed for Private Circulation (for Thomas J. Wise), 1919. Original blue wrappers. First Edition, being one of only 25 copies (so stated). This was the fourth of Thomas J. Wise's twenty very-limited-issue Conrad pamphlets produced during the twelve months between February 1919 and January 1920; being one of Wise's.....
New York: The Century Co., 1897. Original light green cloth decorated in black, orange and gilt. First Edition, which according to the Richards bibliography preceded the London edition by about a month. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts, written while the newlywed Kiplings.....
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[still in unbound gatherings] New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green. First American Edition of what is arguably Conrad's greatest work. This copy has the title page in the second and usual (cancelled) state: at the time this was being published, Doubleday.....
London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1920. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, with dust jacket. First English Trade Edition (issued after the American edition and also after a 40-copy private issue of the English galley proofs). Begun in 1896, and in effect completing the trilogy begun with ALMAYER'S.....
London: Printed for Private Circulation [by Thomas J. Wise], 1919. Original dark red wrappers. First Edition, consisting of only 25 copies (so stated). This is Conrad's reminiscence of the day he heard of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand ("I was barely aware that such a man existed"), and the ensuing.....
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition, published about a month after Dent's London edition. The American edition was set from proof sheets supplied by Dent, after which Conrad made changes that were effected in the UK edition but not.....
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company 1915. Original navy blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition (published on March 26th, six months before the London edition) of Conrad's sad tale of Axel Heyst and the evil (for which read "Germanic") Schomberg. Due to the six-month delay of Methuen's edition.....
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. Original navy blue cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition, fifth and last 1914 impression (NOT so identified -- but per Supino and per Cagle, the fifth has no border around the title page, and its half-title does bear the ship device).....
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897. Original pictorial light blue-grey mottled cloth. First Edition, first issue, of the tale subsequently published as THE NIGGER OF THE "NARCISSUS." Conrad wrote this story with the "Nigger" title, but consented to change the title for the American edition (which preceded the English);.....
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition of this autobiographical work, which had initially (in 1908-1909) appeared serially in Ford Madox Ford's newly-founded English Review. Interestingly, Conrad's printed initials at the end of the Preface are "J.C.K." -- using his Polish last name.....
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. First Trade Edition, first issue, of Conrad's last (unfinished) novel, posthumously published three months after DP&Co's 377-copy limited edition -- but one day before Dent's London edition. This first issue has no.....
