NOTES ON LIFE & LETTERS. [signed]

Conrad, Joseph

Published by Publication Date: 1921

[boldly signed by Conrad] London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1921. Original olive-green cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition (preceded by a 35-copy privately-printed issue). This is a collection of pieces that had appeared, over the prior two years, as 25-copy pamphlets produced by Clement Shorter and by T.J. Wise. This copy is in the third and usual state, with a cancel leaf for pages xi-xii, to correct the "S" and "A" of "SEA" lacking in the Table of Contents. The first state lacks these two letters entirely; the second state retains the original leaf but with those two letters hand-stamped in. Supino, drawing from a statement from a Dent official, says that the 9,450-copy first edition consisted of 100, 900 and 8,450 copies in the three states respectively. This is a just-about-fine copy, with bookplate removal from the front paste-down, and with the spine gilt less than bright, as usual; the notoriously brittle dust jacket is just about fine as well (a mere trace of edgewear, but remarkably free of soil or darkening). Supino A23.4.0; Cagle A51a(2). This copy is boldly signed by Conrad on the title page. Provenance: French-language bookplate of Marguerite Setten, and leather bookplate of Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010, American novelist, historian, biographer and essayist). Housed in a handsome morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. Seller Inventory # 15531

Bibliographic Details

Title: NOTES ON LIFE & LETTERS. [signed]
Publication Date: 1921
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition