Geography and Some Explorers.
London: [Privately printed by] Strangeways and Sons, January 1924.
Price: $2,500.00
About the item
First edition. One of 30 signed and numbered copies, this being 26. 40 pp. 4to. Light brown wrappers with black text on cover in glassine dust jacket, signed and numbered by Conrad on colophon; fine, in green case with gilt lettering on spine. Smith, p. 112; Keating 203; Supino B1.31.0.
Item #346964
Conrad wrote this as a general introduction for a serial called Countries of the World (in its inaugural February 1924 issue); a month later it appeared in National Geographic.
