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

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Lot 7
  • 7

Conrad, Joseph

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Conrad, Joseph
  • Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895
  • PAPER
8vo, first edition, colonial issue, title-page in black, publisher's advertisement for "Unwin's Colonial Library" on page [2], original green vertically ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on spine, some browning to endpapers, label for "The Southern Cross Library & Reading Room... Melbourne" on front fixed endpaper, fifth leaf of fourth gathering not trimmed, head and foot of spine slightly bumped

Literature

Cagle A1a(2)

Catalogue Note

The rare colonial issue of the first edition of the author's first book, probably one of 250 copies of a total edition of 1000. As with the first state of the first edition, page 110 reveals type missing from the last two lines.