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CONRAD, Joseph SKU: 19697 Barcode:
Stock No. 19697
Authors: Joseph, CONRAD (1857-1924)
London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904
First edition, first printing. of Conrad's sprawling modernist novel of South American intrigue. Crown 8vo (7 x 5 ins); pp. [viii]; 480. Publisher's blue cloth with paler blue title lettering and author to upper board, repeated in gilt to the spine. Waved borders in same pale blue across top and bottom of upper board and spine. The three major issue points present, ie. printers imprint at bottom of last page; p187 incorrectly numbered as 871; the final page of text correctly numbered as 480. Boards clean and bright, ends of spine rolled and points of corners a touch rubbed (but still sharp). Gilt on spine bright. front endpaper expertly reattached; half-title and edge of text black toned. Contents exceptionally clean without old inscriptions or other markings. First published serially in monthly instalments in "T.P.s Weekly" magazine between 1902 and 1904 the work grew from a projected short-story into his longest novel. When it first appeared, significantly revised, as a book, it failed to win critical or public approval. Its poor reception was due largely to its difficulty, a product not so much of its many characters or the complexity of the story itself, but of the plotting. (Kenneth Ligda). "I'd rather have written Conrad's Nostromo than any other novel" - F. Scott Fitzgerald. "The greatest novel in English of this century" - Walter Allen.
