With a Preface by R.B. Cunninghame Graham. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925. Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition (American -- published on the same day as the English edition). This posthumous collection of four tales, published the year after Conrad died, includes "The Tale," considered... More
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original navy blue cloth decorated in gilt. This is a volume from the "Concord Edition" of Conrad's works, published the year before his death; included is a fold-out map of the world showing all 19 of Conrad's literary voyages. The volume is... More
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). This collection of three tales is known primarily for the middle one, "The Secret Sharer" -- Conrad's best-known... More
[in (original?) glassine] Hodder & Stoughton / New York / George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1912]. Original red cloth. First American Edition of this three-tale collection best known for "The Secret Sharer" -- Conrad's most famous short story other than "Heart of Darkness." This was Doran's first and only printing... More
London: William Heinemann, 1903. 2 pp preliminary ads = 32 pp terminal ads, undated. Original dark grey cloth with front-cover life preserver in gilt. First Edition, first (i.e. non-Colonial) issue, limited to 1,500 copies. In addition to the title tale, the "other stories" are "Amy Foster," "Falk" and "To-morrow" ("Falk"... More
An Island Tale. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company 1915. Original blue cloth. First Edition (published 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, with the Great War... More
An Island Tale. London: Methuen & Co., (1915). 4 pp ads dated Autumn 1915 plus 31 pp ads dated "8/5/15". Original red cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First English Edition. This was issued about six months after the New York edition, due to delays related to Conrad's displeasure with Methuen ("It... More
London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1915. Original olive green cloth. First Edition of these four maritime tales -- "The Planter of Malata," "The Partner," "The Inn of the Two Witches" and "Because of the Dollars." None of these has withstood the test of time, though the last... More
["Heart of Darkness"] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. 32 pp ads dated Nov 1902. Original light green cloth decorated in black. First Edition. Although "Youth" gets top billing on the title page and binding, this book is sought largely for one of the "two other stories": the... More
An Extravagant Story. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black and orange. First Edition of the first collaboration between Conrad and Hueffer -- a tale that combines science fiction with political satire, somewhat in the same vein as had recently been popularized by... More
A Novel. Illustrated by Charles R. Macauley. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. 8 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in grey. First American (and first illustrated) Edition of this the second collaboration between Conrad and Hueffer. This is a bright copy, fine externally; the first few leaves... More
[the earliest planned Conrad film] Agreement between Fiction Pictures Inc. and Joseph Conrad (with Ford Madox Hueffer added in in ink). Seven typed pages within legal folder of Stern & Reubenstein, New York, dated 5 March 1915. The first six pages are initialed a total of seven times by both... More
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. Original decorative boards with black cloth spine and printed labels, with dust jacket. First American Edition of this last of the three "collaborations" between Conrad and Hueffer/Ford (following THE INHERITORS and ROMANCE). (The English edition is by Conrad and "F. M. Hueffer";... More
A Novel. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1903. 8 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth stamped in white. First Edition, believed to have consisted of 2,000 copies (which may have included sheets for Bell's colonial edition). This was Conrad and Hueffer's second collaboration (after THE INHERITORS), and it was not... More
[inscribed + letters from Curle] Notes on Burma and Malaya. With a Preface by Joseph Conrad. London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. Original mottled red cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition of this volume of travel notes on what were then called Burma and Malaya, by this good friend of Joseph... More
[in the original boards] A Narrative of 1757. By the Author of "The Spy," "The Pilot," "The Pioneers," &c. &c. In Three Volumes. London: John Miller, 1826. Original drab paper-covered boards with (early but not original) brown paper spines and printed labels. First English Edition, published in three volumes just... More
[unopened, in original boards] In Two Volumes. By the Author of The Pioneers, Pilot, &c. New-York: Published by Charles Wiley | D. Fanshaw, Printer, 1825 [1824 in Vol II]. Original drab paper-covered boards with printed spine labels. First Edition of this "Legend of the Thirteen Republics" (per the fly-titles). This... More
Illustrated by John Sloan. London: Chapman & Hall, 1901. Original reddish-brown cloth. First English Edition. Crane dreamed up the idea of dramatizing great battles as a money-making scheme: "such sure quick money," he wrote his agent Pinker. Crane was very familiar with recent battles: since 1895 he had been a.... More
A Fable -- In Verse. London: Charles Tilt, 1832. Original yellow printed wrappers. First Edition of this fable in verse form, accompanied by four Cruikshank plates. This copy is of the first issue, with the "Finden's Landscape Illustrations" ad on the outer rear wrapper; it does not have the eight... More
or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Sixth Edition, with Additions and Corrections. (Eleventh Thousand.) London: John Murray, 1872. Original green cloth. "Sixth Edition (Eleventh Thousand)" -- with important material that had not been in the earlier editions. This is, of course, "certainly the most important... More
London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition, which according to the limitation page consisted of only 300 copies (though the book does not seem as scarce as that). The title comes from Davidson's membership in the Rhymers' Club (Yeats et... More
for General Circulation. New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1842. 4 pp ads dated Nov 2, 1842. Original brown wrappers. First American Edition (?) of this book that resulted from Dickens's 1842 tour of America. Wilkins gives priority to the spurious "Brother Jonathan" edition published by Wilson & Co., which bears a.... More
A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne. Complete in One Volume. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. Original blind-stamped olive green cloth. First Separate Edition. After NICHOLAS NICKLEBY was published in monthly serial parts with separate plates in 1838-1839, Dickens decided that... More
A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This is... More
London: Office of All The Year Round / Chapman & Hall, 1859-1867. [In nine volumes.] Original self-wrappers (first four) and blue printed wrappers (last five) -- as issued. First Editions of all nine "Extra Christmas Numbers" of this periodical that Charles Dickens founded, and edited for its nine years of... More
