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Joseph Conrad, 1913
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Chance
Joseph Conrad, 1913
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Chance. A Tale in Two Parts. London: Methuen & Co., [1913].
First edition, rare first issue, in dust jacket. Chance was one of Conrad's most popular novels in his lifetime—the only one set in his adopted country of England. "The general public responded largely, more largely perhaps than to any other book of mine, in the only way the general public can respond, that is by buying a certain number of copies. This gave me a certain amount of pleasure, because what I always feared most was drifting unconsciously into the position of a writer for a limited coterie; a position which would have been odious to me as throwing a doubt on the soundness of my belief in the solidarity of all mankind in simple ideas and sincere emotions." (Conrad, quoted in Keating).
The book was printed in fall 1913, after the publishers managed to smooth out a dispute with Conrad about promotion. However, due to a binder's strike the publication was postponed until January 1914, and most copies have a cancelled title with the 1914 date on the verso. The present bears the date 1913 and is called by Cagle the "pre-publication" issue). This copy is in Cagle's binding B and second state of the advertisements (no 32-page catalogue, but with Harrovians listed on ad p. 6). Cagle A17a(1); Keating 103 ("extremely rare genuine first issue"). We trace only two copies of the first issue in dust jacket in the auction records of ABPC since 1976.
Octavo. Half-title. 8-pages of advertisements at end. (Some spotting to prelims.) Original green cloth, spine stamped in gilt (spotting to paper edges, endpapers toned); odust jacket with full color illustration by J. Dewar Mills (some toning, light edge-wear, repaired tear to lower panel); custom morocco pull-off case (sunned).
Joseph Conrad, 1913
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Chance. A Tale in Two Parts. London: Methuen & Co., [1913].
First edition, rare first issue, in dust jacket. Chance was one of Conrad's most popular novels in his lifetime—the only one set in his adopted country of England. "The general public responded largely, more largely perhaps than to any other book of mine, in the only way the general public can respond, that is by buying a certain number of copies. This gave me a certain amount of pleasure, because what I always feared most was drifting unconsciously into the position of a writer for a limited coterie; a position which would have been odious to me as throwing a doubt on the soundness of my belief in the solidarity of all mankind in simple ideas and sincere emotions." (Conrad, quoted in Keating).
The book was printed in fall 1913, after the publishers managed to smooth out a dispute with Conrad about promotion. However, due to a binder's strike the publication was postponed until January 1914, and most copies have a cancelled title with the 1914 date on the verso. The present bears the date 1913 and is called by Cagle the "pre-publication" issue). This copy is in Cagle's binding B and second state of the advertisements (no 32-page catalogue, but with Harrovians listed on ad p. 6). Cagle A17a(1); Keating 103 ("extremely rare genuine first issue"). We trace only two copies of the first issue in dust jacket in the auction records of ABPC since 1976.
Octavo. Half-title. 8-pages of advertisements at end. (Some spotting to prelims.) Original green cloth, spine stamped in gilt (spotting to paper edges, endpapers toned); odust jacket with full color illustration by J. Dewar Mills (some toning, light edge-wear, repaired tear to lower panel); custom morocco pull-off case (sunned).
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Heather Weintraub
Specialist, Books, Manuscripts, & Archives