London’s River.

London: [Privately printed by Clement Shorter], April 1919.

Price: $3,500.00


About the item

First edition; one of 25, this copy numbered on 18 on limitation. 18 pp. 4to. Stitch-bound red publisher's wrappers with black titles on cover, light toning and a few small tears at edges but overall a near fine copy. Housed in a gray-green morocco-backed slipcase with a chemise that has previous owner's bookplate on the inside cover. Slipcase has gilt lettering on a banded spine. Supino B1.6.0.

Item #351712

The sixth and last of Clement Shorter’s publications of Conrad, first published in the issue of World’s Work for December 1904 and later forming sections xxx and xxxi of The Mirror of the Sea (1906). Uncommon in the trade.