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R9,000
THE WORKS OF JOSEPH CONRAD (VOL. 1 SIGNED BY AUTHOR, LIMITED EDITION, 20 VOLS.)
London: William Heinemann, 1921-1927
8vo, various pages, original beige hardcover bindings with black lettering to spines, and facsimile of author’s signature to the front boards.
20 Volume complete set. Vol. 1 signed by Joseph Conrad on limitation page. Limited edition of 780 sets, of which this is no. 534. “Notes on Life and Letters” (Vol. 18) appears here as a first edition.
This uniform complete edition in 20 volumes includes the following of Conrad’s works: Almayer’s Folly, Tales of Unrest, An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, Typhoon, Lord Jim, Youth, Romance (with F. M. Hueffer, better known as Ford Maddox Ford), Nostoromo, The Secret Agent, The Inheritors, A Set of Six, Under Western Eyes, A Personal Record, The Mirror of the Sea, ‘Twixt Land and Sea, Chance, The Shadow Line, Within the Tides, Victory, The Arrow of Gold, The Rescue, Notes on Life & Letters, The Rover, Suspense.
Condition: Very good. Small superficial chip to front board of vol. 12. Minor bump to bottom edge of vol. 13. Small section of the cloth binding missing from the bottom corner of front board of vol. 20, and a light stain to the same volume’s bottom corner of rear board. Overall the volumes have some light rubbing to the boards, slight shelfwear to the tops and tails of spine, and the spines have some light sunning. Each volume has clean and clear texts, and all are well bound.
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