The Joseph Conrad Collection from the Library of the late Stanley J. Seeger - Part I

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Lot 49
  • 49

Conrad, Joseph

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Conrad, Joseph
  • Youth: a narrative and two other stories. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902
  • PAPER
8vo, first edition, colonial issue, original light green cloth lettered in black on spine and upper cover, slight browning to endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some surface abrasions and minor holes to front free endpaper, slightly skewed, binding slightly worn with faded spine

Literature

Cagle A7a(2)

Catalogue Note

The rare colonial issue of the first printing of Youth. It is recorded in the publisher's ledger that 725 copies were bound for colonial issue comprising 400 copies in cloth and 325 copies in paper wrappers. Cagle saw neither and states simply "no copy located".

The design on the upper cover notes "for circulation in India and British Colonies only". The contemporary ownership inscription is dated 13 January 1903.