An uncommon collection of works by master prose stylist Joseph Conrad with an emphasis on privately printed pamphlets issued by T.J. Wise and Clement Shorter. Includes Tales of the Seas and The Polish Question (both 1919) and Geography and Some Explorers (1920).
London: [Privately printed], 1921. First edition. One of 100 signed copies. SIGNED by Joseph Conrad. Read More about Simple Cooking Precepts for a Little House by Jessie Conrad with Preface by Joseph Conrad
Price: $1,500
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
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
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: Richard Clay and Sons, Ltd, 1919. First edition, one of 25 numbered copies, of which this 8. The piece originally appeared in June 16, 1904 issue of Speaker, and later collected in Notes on Life & Letters. This was the thirteenth of the twenty very limited Conrad titles by..... Read More about Anatole France
Price: $1,500
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”
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Canterbury: H.J. Goulden, Limited, 1922. First edition, first printing (lacking title page), one of 75. Read More about The Dover Patrol. A Tribute
Price: $750
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
London: [Privately printed by Clement Shorter], August 1918. First edition. One of 25. Read More about The First News
Price: $1,500
London: [Privately printed by] Strangeways and Sons, January 1924. First edition. One of 30 signed and numbered copies, this being 26. 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..... Read More about Geography and Some Explorers
Price: $2,500
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
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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
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1926. First edition. Off-print published alongside one of Doubleday's collected works. Read More about Joseph Conrad. Including An Approach to his Writings, A Biographical Sketch, A Brief Survey of...
Price: $75
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
London: [Privately printed by Clement Shorter], April 1919. First edition; one of 25, this copy numbered on 18 on limitation. 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..... Read More about London’s River
Price: $3,500
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
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
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First English edition (first American edition, English issue), limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Conrad, this copy being 97. SIGNED and numbered Conrad title. This English edition was actually printed in the U.S. Doubleday Page produced 500 copies, sending half of them to Heinemann for..... Read More about Notes On My Books
Price: $800
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 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
London: Beaumont Press, 1919. Second English edition, first impression, one of 250 of the handmade paper edition (of 274, 24 signed copies were on Japanese vellum, while 250 were on handmade paper). Read More about One Day More. A Play in One Act
Price: $200
London: Beaumont Press, 1919. Second English edition, first impression, limited vellum issue; one of 24 signed and numbered copies, this being number 19 (of 274, 24 signed copies were on Japanese vellum, while 250 were on handmade paper). SIGNED. Read More about One Day More. A Play in One Act
Price: $3,500
London: [Privately printed by Clement Shorter], March 1919. First edition. One of 25. One of 25 copies printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends. This was the fourth of Shorter's six issues produced for private distribution. Published in 2016 in The Book of the Homeless, organized by Edith..... Read More about The Polish Question - A Note on the Joint Protectorate of the Western Powers and Russia
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London: [Privately printed by] Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, 1920. First edition; limited to 25 hand-numbered copies, this copy being 10. This was the nineteenth of the twenty very-limited-issue Conrad productions by Thomas J. Wise. The story originally appeared in the October 1911 issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Review..... Read More about Prince Roman
Price: $2,000
London: [Privately printed by] T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1923. Second English edition, for subscribers only; one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Conrad, this being number 127. SIGNED. This was Conrad's dramatization of his 1907 novel of the same name, preceded by a 52-copy private issue (…in Four Acts; Canterbury..... Read More about The Secret Agent. A Drama in Three Acts
Price: $750