Conrad, Joseph ALMAYER'S FOLLY. A STORY OF AN EASTERN RIVER. LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, 1895 8vo, first edition, first state of the author's first book, with a pen and ink drawing by Conrad of a seated lady being serenaded (17.5 x 11.2cm), inscribed below in pencil by Jessie Conrad: "Done by Joseph Conrad in Paris about 1893", integral blank, on a guard affixed to the half-title, title-page in red and black, bookplate of Francis Edwin Murray to front pastedown, original dark green vertically ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, top edges gilt, collector's green morocco-backed folding case, splitting at upper hinge, offsetting to endpapers, slight wear to head of spine and lower fore-corners, spotting to drawing
Conrad, Joseph ALMAYER'S FOLLY. A STORY OF AN EASTERN RIVER. LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, 1895 8vo, first edition, first state of the author's first book, with a pen and ink drawing by Conrad of a seated lady being serenaded (17.5 x 11.2cm), inscribed below in pencil by Jessie Conrad: "Done by Joseph Conrad in Paris about 1893", integral blank, on a guard affixed to the half-title, title-page in red and black, bookplate of Francis Edwin Murray to front pastedown, original dark green vertically ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, top edges gilt, collector's green morocco-backed folding case, splitting at upper hinge, offsetting to endpapers, slight wear to head of spine and lower fore-corners, spotting to drawing
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