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London: [Privately printed by] Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, 1920. First edition. One of 25 numbered copies, this being 14. This was the eighteenth of twenty privately printed Conrad publications produced by Thomas J. Wise. This piece, a review of Hugh Clifford's Studies in Brown Humanity, had originally appeared in..... Read More about An Observer in Malay
Price: $2,000
Hythe: [Privately printed for the author by J. Lovick], 1902. First separate edition. One of 100 (40 were destroyed according to Conrad). Reprinted from the New Review of December 1897, although greatly revised, the preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus" announced Conrad's artistic creed. It was not reprinted again..... Read More about The Nigger of the Narcissus - Preface
Price: $3,000
New York: [Privately printed for Jerome Kern], Christmas 1925. First edition; one of 93 numbered copies, this being 67. This was a "lost essay" by Conrad, which he wrote in 1917 about the strafing of the Kent coast during the Great War. The manuscript was the property of financier, John..... Read More about Admiralty Paper
Price: $900
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First edition, one of 926 copies on handmade paper, 9 of which are green. Inscribed to Frank C. Reilly by Crosby Gaige. Read More about The Sisters
Price: $300
London: [Printed for the author by] Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, 1920. First edition, one of 25 numbered copies, this being 18. This was the fifteenth of the twenty limited issue Conrad publications Thomas J. Wise had produced. Te piece originally appeared in the 1908 issue of English Review, and..... Read More about Anatole France “L’lle des Pingouins”
Price: $1,500
Canterbury: H.J. Goulden, Limited, 1922. Second edition (with title page included), one of 75. This essay, written at the request of Lord Northcliffe, originally appeared in the The Times, July 27, 1921, and was later included in Later Essays. This is one of the most difficult items in the Conrad..... Read More about The Dover Patrol. A Tribute
Price: $750
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. First edition, limited 250 signed and numbered copies, of which this is 221. SIGNED and numbered edition. Read More about Notes on My Books
Price: $1,000
London: [Privately printed for] Thomas J. Wise, 1919. First edition, one of 25. 6th of T.J. Wise’s 20 limited edition Conrad titles, all done between Feb. 1919 and Jan. 1920. This was the Introduction written for de Maupassant's Yvette and Other Stories (London, 1904) translated by Ada Galsworthy. Read More about Guy de Maupassant
Price: $1,500
London: Vine Books, September 1923. First edition. One of 200 signed and numbered copies, of which 175 were available for sale, this being 144, signed and numbered by Conrad on colophon. This is the fourth of Vine Books' "The Bookman's Journal" subscription issued editions. Set by hand and printed in..... Read More about Laughing Anne
Price: $1,000
Canterbury: H.J. Goulden, Limited, 1922. First edition, first printing, lacking title page. One of 25 copies printed. Galsworthy had met Conrad in early 1893, when a passenger on board the Torrens, of which Conrad was the first mate. This piece was written as a review of Galsworthy's novel A Man..... Read More about John Galsworthy. An Appreciation
Price: $750
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1985]. First Edition. With 1 page review, holgraph in pen by Ashley Montagu laid in. Read More about The Human Animal
Price: $60
New York: James Miller, [n.d., circa 1876]. Read More about The Story without End. From the German of Carove … with a Preface and Key to the Emblems by A....
Price: $125
New York: The Macaualy Company, [1933]. First edition of the author's second novel. WITH 2 THURBER DRAWINGS. With pencil portrait of Malcolm Cowley by Thurber on the ffep, entitled "Portait of the Artist as a Young Man" signed by him, additionally signed by Cowley on the half-title and with a...... Read More about Yesterday's Burdens
Price: $5,000
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1850 [actually published November, 1849]. First American edition, Harper & Brothers' 'Library of Select Novels' issue ("octavo edition in wrappers" printed in two columns), in publisher's boards. "SHIRLEY": 'LIBRARY OF SELECT NOVELS' ISSUE, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. An elusive title in this Library of Select..... Read More about Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell. Author of "Jane Eyre."
Price: $950
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First American Edition. Read More about The Viking Age: The Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of the English-Speaking...
Price: $250
[Columbia, SC: Published by The State Co.], 1908. First edition. Author's second regularly published book. Read More about The Banners of the Coast
Price: $750
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co, 1887. First edition. Satirical adaptation of Izaak Walton’s classic. Rare and Comic. Read More about The Incompleat Angler after Master Izaak Walton
Price: $350
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. No. 99 of 100 copies on mouldmade paper, signed by Joyce. One of 100 Copies Signed by Joyce. Published following the legal success of the 1934 Random House Ulysses trial, which established the principle that a "classic" work was allowed greater flexibility when..... Read More about Ulysses
Price: $42,500
New York: Times Books/ Random House, 1995. First edition, first printing, with number line from 2 through 9, as called for. Obama's First Book. Barack Obama's moving and lyrical memoir, recounting his early life through his work as a community organizer in Chicago and enrollment in Harvard Law School. Read More about Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Price: $950
London: David Bogue, 1852. First edition. Choice English adaptation of the beast-headed people of French master J.J. Grandville, here in the light of the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace. The illustrations are wood-engravings, mainly drawn by H.G. Hine and engraved by various hands,including S. & A. Slader, H. Vizetelly..... Read More about Comical People. Illustrated with Sixteen Pictures taken from the Embroidered Tapestry contributed...
Price: $750
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882. First edition, in the variant green (a) binding. A classic of late Victorian literature, Jefferies’ lyrical novel of Wiltshire. Read More about Bevis. The Story of a Boy
Price: $400
Canterbury: H.J. Goulden, Limited, 1922. First edition, second printing (with title page). Galsworthy had met Conrad in early 1893, when a passenger on board the Torrens, of which Conrad was the first mate. This piece was written as a review of Galsworthy's novel A Man of Property, the review appeared..... Read More about John Galsworthy. An Appreciation
Price: $300
1927 (April 15). First edition; one of 150 copies. This is a reproduction of a letter Joseph Conrad wrote to editor of "The Editor" William R. Kane, in response to a request for his advice to other writers; printed on rectos only with a facsimile signature at the end. Read More about To My Brethren of the Pen
Price: $250
London: Privately printed [by Strangeways], 1925. First edition, signed and numbered by Noble, this copy being number 71. Read More about Five Letters by Joseph Conrad. Written to Edward Noble in 1895
Price: $250
London: [Privately printed for Thomas J. Wise], 1919. First edition; one of 25. This piece originially published in the April 6, 1915 issue of The London Daily News & Leader; it would be collected (as Section III of "Poland Revisited") in Notes on Life & Letters. This was the eighth..... Read More about The North Sea on the Eve of War
Price: $2,000