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Auction archive: Lot number 297

Conrad, Joseph

Estimate
£7,000 - £9,000
ca. US$11,949 - US$15,363
Price realised:
£8,125
ca. US$13,870
Auction archive: Lot number 297

Conrad, Joseph

Estimate
£7,000 - £9,000
ca. US$11,949 - US$15,363
Price realised:
£8,125
ca. US$13,870
Beschreibung:

Conrad, Joseph THE AUTHOR'S NOTE TO VICTORY, TYPESCRIPT Top copy with autograph revisions to every page in black ink, including cancelled passages and interlinear revisions, altogether about 450 words in autograph, the head of the first page signed ("First draft Joseph Conrad"), dated, and initialled in red crayon, the foot of the last page signed, initialled, also with a signed autograph note ("Original text first draft dict[at]ed to the machine. One copy (and carbon) embodying all corr[ecti]ons made for printers Eng[lan]d and US"), and with a note in red crayon ("Ld Edition"), 10 pages numbered by hand in blue pencil, quarto (260 x 200mm, "Original Chatham Mills Kent" watermark), May 1920, bound in crushed black morocco gilt by Stikeman & Co., NY, with two typescript copies of a note incorporating a letter by Thomas J. Wise, four pages, loosely inserted

Auction archive: Lot number 297
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jul 2014
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Conrad, Joseph THE AUTHOR'S NOTE TO VICTORY, TYPESCRIPT Top copy with autograph revisions to every page in black ink, including cancelled passages and interlinear revisions, altogether about 450 words in autograph, the head of the first page signed ("First draft Joseph Conrad"), dated, and initialled in red crayon, the foot of the last page signed, initialled, also with a signed autograph note ("Original text first draft dict[at]ed to the machine. One copy (and carbon) embodying all corr[ecti]ons made for printers Eng[lan]d and US"), and with a note in red crayon ("Ld Edition"), 10 pages numbered by hand in blue pencil, quarto (260 x 200mm, "Original Chatham Mills Kent" watermark), May 1920, bound in crushed black morocco gilt by Stikeman & Co., NY, with two typescript copies of a note incorporating a letter by Thomas J. Wise, four pages, loosely inserted

Auction archive: Lot number 297
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jul 2014
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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