CONRAD, JOSEPH. Lord Jim. A Romance. New York: Doubleday & McClure 1900. 8vo, original green cloth, spine slightly darkened, sides a trifle soiled, green half morocco gilt folding case . First American Edition, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Conrad on the front free endpaper: "To Mr and Mrs J. Spiridion from their friend the Author Nov. 1900" (month of publication). With the signature of Jósef Kliszczewski on verso of half-title. Jósef Spiridion Kliszczewski (one of the recipients of this presentation copy) was a member of a family of Polish émigreés living in Cardiff, Wales. Conrad first visited them in 1885, while in the British merchant service, and they became good friends. His first extant letters in English, to Jósef Spiridion Kliszczewski, date from that year. See various references in Frederick R. Karl, Joseph Conrad...A Biography, New York [1979].
CONRAD, JOSEPH. Lord Jim. A Romance. New York: Doubleday & McClure 1900. 8vo, original green cloth, spine slightly darkened, sides a trifle soiled, green half morocco gilt folding case . First American Edition, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Conrad on the front free endpaper: "To Mr and Mrs J. Spiridion from their friend the Author Nov. 1900" (month of publication). With the signature of Jósef Kliszczewski on verso of half-title. Jósef Spiridion Kliszczewski (one of the recipients of this presentation copy) was a member of a family of Polish émigreés living in Cardiff, Wales. Conrad first visited them in 1885, while in the British merchant service, and they became good friends. His first extant letters in English, to Jósef Spiridion Kliszczewski, date from that year. See various references in Frederick R. Karl, Joseph Conrad...A Biography, New York [1979].
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