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CONRAD, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. London: Methuen & Co., 1911.
8o. 32 page publisher's catalogue dated "September 1911" at end. Original red cloth, spine decorated in gilt (spine faded and a bit cocked, with light wear at foot). Provenance: Hugh Walpole (presentation inscription, ownership inscription dated 1911 and bookplate); anonymous owner (sale Sotheby's London, 15 December 1978, lot 581).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CONRAD TO HUGH WALPOLE on the front free endpaper: "This book represents 19 months of actual work on the text. Great success in Russian translation Joseph Conrad June 1922." AN ADVANCE COPY with the publisher's presentation ink stamp on the title page.
A fine literary association, from the library of novelist and book collector Hugh Walpole (see previous lot).
Conrad finished Under Western Eyes originally titled "Razumov" on January 22, 1910. "The completion of Under the Western Eyes marked the end of an era. The year 1909-10 was, in a sense, a watershed for Conrad, manifested psychologically by his nervous collapse for four months and demonstrated literarily by his realization of an entire phase of person writings." (Karl, p.678). Cagle A14a(1).
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FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CONRAD TO HUGH WALPOLE on the front free endpaper: "This book represents 19 months of actual work on the text. Great success in Russian translation Joseph Conrad June 1922." AN ADVANCE COPY with the publisher's presentation ink stamp on the title page.
A fine literary association, from the library of novelist and book collector Hugh Walpole (see previous lot).
Conrad finished Under Western Eyes originally titled "Razumov" on January 22, 1910. "The completion of Under the Western Eyes marked the end of an era. The year 1909-10 was, in a sense, a watershed for Conrad, manifested psychologically by his nervous collapse for four months and demonstrated literarily by his realization of an entire phase of person writings." (Karl, p.678). Cagle A14a(1).