CONRAD (JOSEPH)Typhoon and Other Stories, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO JOHN GALSWORTHY ("To J. Galsworthy most affectionately from Jph. Conrad 1903") on the front free endpaper, 2pp. publisher's advertisements before the half-title, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some light spotting, publisher's dark grey cloth, gilt stamped decoration on upper cover, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed at extremities, soiling to upper cover, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A8b(1)], 8vo, William Heinemann, 1903Footnotes"TO J. GALSWORTHY MOST AFFECTIONATELY" - Inscribed in the year of publication to Conrad's fellow novelist and lifelong friend, whom he had first met in 1893, and to whom in 1904 he dedicated Nostromo. Provenance: John Galsworthy, author's gift inscription, and bookplate; Sotheby's (Hodgson's Rooms), 26 April 1979, lot 106; Sotheby's, The Joseph Conrad Collection From the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 10 July 2013, lot 40.
CONRAD (JOSEPH)Typhoon and Other Stories, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO JOHN GALSWORTHY ("To J. Galsworthy most affectionately from Jph. Conrad 1903") on the front free endpaper, 2pp. publisher's advertisements before the half-title, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some light spotting, publisher's dark grey cloth, gilt stamped decoration on upper cover, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed at extremities, soiling to upper cover, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A8b(1)], 8vo, William Heinemann, 1903Footnotes"TO J. GALSWORTHY MOST AFFECTIONATELY" - Inscribed in the year of publication to Conrad's fellow novelist and lifelong friend, whom he had first met in 1893, and to whom in 1904 he dedicated Nostromo. Provenance: John Galsworthy, author's gift inscription, and bookplate; Sotheby's (Hodgson's Rooms), 26 April 1979, lot 106; Sotheby's, The Joseph Conrad Collection From the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 10 July 2013, lot 40.
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