CONRAD, JOSEPH. Youth and Two Other Stories. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1903. 8vo, original pea green cloth, blocked on front cover in blind with a stylized wave-and-dolphin motif, gilt-lettered, unopened, IN THE STRIKING AND VERY RARE DUST JACKET which replicates the cover design but with red printing on buff paper (tiny tear at top of spine); blue half morocco slipcase. First American Edition, constituting the first American appearance of "Heart of Darkness"; "The End of the Tether" is the third story (and the only one not related by Marlow); publisher's advertisement slip laid in. Keating 38; Connolly, The Modern Movement 14. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY.