CONRAD, JOSEPH. Youth: a Narrative and Two Other Stories. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood 1902. 8vo, original light green cloth, soiled and rubbed, inner hinges tender; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, 32-page publisher's catalogue at end dated "10/02," PRESENTATION COPY TO ARNOLD BENNETT, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To E A Bennett cordially from J. Conrad. 20th Nov. 1902" (publication date was 13 November). Smith 8; Connolly, The Modern Movement 14. According to G. Jean-Aubry, Life and Letters of Joseph Conrad (1927), I, pp. 302 & 305, Bennett had presented Conrad with a copy of Anna of the Five Towns on 11 September 1902; on 6 November Conrad wrote to Bennett: "I shall send a volume of my own when it appears..." The "two other stories" in Youth are "Heart of Darkness" and "The End of the Tether" (the first book appearance for both).

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CONRAD, JOSEPH. Youth: a Narrative and Two Other Stories. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood 1902. 8vo, original light green cloth, soiled and rubbed, inner hinges tender; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, 32-page publisher's catalogue at end dated "10/02," PRESENTATION COPY TO ARNOLD BENNETT, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To E A Bennett cordially from J. Conrad. 20th Nov. 1902" (publication date was 13 November). Smith 8; Connolly, The Modern Movement 14. According to G. Jean-Aubry, Life and Letters of Joseph Conrad (1927), I, pp. 302 & 305, Bennett had presented Conrad with a copy of Anna of the Five Towns on 11 September 1902; on 6 November Conrad wrote to Bennett: "I shall send a volume of my own when it appears..." The "two other stories" in Youth are "Heart of Darkness" and "The End of the Tether" (the first book appearance for both).