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Joseph Conrad, 1902
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad, 1902
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902.
First edition of Conrad's most important collection of stories, including "Heart of Darkness." The three collected stories, also including "Youth” and "The End of the Tether," had all appeared previously in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Cyril Connolly counts this, along with Conrad's The Secret Agent, among the top hundred works in The Modern Movement. Cagle A7a(1); Connolly The Modern Movement 14; Keating 35.
Octavo. Half-title. 32-page publisher's catalogue at end dated 10/02. (A few faint spots to prelims and endpapers.) Original publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and black, white wove endpapers (touch of rubbing to extremities, small bubble to cloth on lower corner of upper cover); custom box.
Joseph Conrad, 1902
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902.
First edition of Conrad's most important collection of stories, including "Heart of Darkness." The three collected stories, also including "Youth” and "The End of the Tether," had all appeared previously in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Cyril Connolly counts this, along with Conrad's The Secret Agent, among the top hundred works in The Modern Movement. Cagle A7a(1); Connolly The Modern Movement 14; Keating 35.
Octavo. Half-title. 32-page publisher's catalogue at end dated 10/02. (A few faint spots to prelims and endpapers.) Original publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and black, white wove endpapers (touch of rubbing to extremities, small bubble to cloth on lower corner of upper cover); custom box.
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