Conrad, Joseph LORD JIM. A ROMANCE. NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY & MCCLURE CO., 1900 8vo, first American edition, second state with cancel title page (with verso reading "Copyright, 1899 and 1900"), presentation copy inscribed by Conrad on front endpaper to his French translator ("A | Henry D. Davray | avec les amitiés | de l'auteur. | Novbre 1900"), rebound in cloth-backed contemporary boards, French library stamps at beginning and end and on some leaves of the text ("Bibliotheque Renand" and "Bibliotheque L'Hirondelle"), underlinings in ink and pencil to numerous passages, probably by Davray, some leaves crudely cut down at outer margin for rebinding (not affecting text), unsightly library stamps, wear and slight staining to library binding
Conrad, Joseph LORD JIM. A ROMANCE. NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY & MCCLURE CO., 1900 8vo, first American edition, second state with cancel title page (with verso reading "Copyright, 1899 and 1900"), presentation copy inscribed by Conrad on front endpaper to his French translator ("A | Henry D. Davray | avec les amitiés | de l'auteur. | Novbre 1900"), rebound in cloth-backed contemporary boards, French library stamps at beginning and end and on some leaves of the text ("Bibliotheque Renand" and "Bibliotheque L'Hirondelle"), underlinings in ink and pencil to numerous passages, probably by Davray, some leaves crudely cut down at outer margin for rebinding (not affecting text), unsightly library stamps, wear and slight staining to library binding
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