CONRAD, JOSEPH | A Set of Six. London: Methuen & Co., 1908

Property from a Midwestern Estate

CONRAD, JOSEPH 

A Set of Six. London: Methuen & Co., 1908

8vo. Publisher's catalogue dated June 1908 at end. Publisher's red-stamped blue cloth, gilt spine title; corners bumped, worm holes affecting boards and spine, some splitting at interior joints. Green cloth covered board chemise, half-morocco slipcase, green cloth boards, gilt spine.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed: “To Ernest Dawson affectionately from J. C. 1908.” The recipient was Major Ernest Dawson, with whom Conrad maintained a correspondence for some years.

REFERENCE:

Cagle A13a(2); Keating 80

PROVENANCE:

Ernest Dawson (inscription) — Charles C. Auchincloss (bookplate to front pastedown; his sale, Parke-Bernet, 29 November 1961, lot 184