Conrad, Joseph TYPED LETTER SIGNED, TO E.H. VISIAK blue ink, with autograph corrections in black ink, responding to a request to name his favourite of his own books ("...I like best one for one quality and another for a different quality which I perceive in it, or even, perhaps, for what a critic would call a defect ... I will tell you also that there are passages in almost all of my books which 'I like best'. Under those circumstances to select one book for preference could not be done without pondering, balancing, weighing, tasting, and a lot of other delicate operations for which time is growing short..."), 1 page, 4to, headed stationery of Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, 1 February 1924, very slightly sunned
Conrad, Joseph TYPED LETTER SIGNED, TO E.H. VISIAK blue ink, with autograph corrections in black ink, responding to a request to name his favourite of his own books ("...I like best one for one quality and another for a different quality which I perceive in it, or even, perhaps, for what a critic would call a defect ... I will tell you also that there are passages in almost all of my books which 'I like best'. Under those circumstances to select one book for preference could not be done without pondering, balancing, weighing, tasting, and a lot of other delicate operations for which time is growing short..."), 1 page, 4to, headed stationery of Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, 1 February 1924, very slightly sunned
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