UNDER WESTERN EYES.
London: Methuen & Co., (1911). 32 pp ads dated Sept 1911. Original red cloth decorated in gilt.
First Edition, which consisted of 2,250 domestic copies (plus 750 colonial). This is a tale of Russian revolutionaries, centered about the character Razumov (whose name was Conrad's working title of the book). Harper, which published the American edition, declined to handle the serialization "because their magazine circulated in Russia and they feared it would cause a breach in their good relations with that country" [Cagle].
This copy has the ads dated September -- some are dated August, but the book was not actually published until 5 October. The volume is in remarkably fine, bright condition, with scarcely any of the fading of the spine that typically afflicts this book. UNDER WESTERN EYES is becoming difficult to find in this advantageous condition. Supino A14.1.0; Cagle A14a(1). Item #15575
Price: $475.00