“There are things you find nothing about in books”: Joseph Conrad's Typhoon; Inscribed by Him
Typhoon.
Conrad, Joseph.
$2,200.00Item Number: 51088
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.
First edition, later printing of this classic sea yarn by Conrad. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt stamped to the front panel, gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece. Boldly inscribed by Joseph Conrad on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition with some light offsetting to the endpapers.
Typhoon is most likely based upon Conrad's actual experience of seaman's life, and probably on a real incident aboard of the steamer John P. Best. The Typhoon describes how Captain MacWhirr sails the s/s Nan-Shan, a British-built steamer running under the Siamese flag, into a typhoon a mature tropical cyclone of the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. Other characters include the young Jukes most probably an alter ego of Conrad from the time he had sailed under captain John McWhirr and Solomon Rout, the chief engineer. The novella classically evokes the seafaring life at the turn of the century. While Macwhirr, who, according to Conrad, never walked on this Earth is emotionally estranged from his family and crew, and though he refuses to consider an alternate course to skirt the typhoon, his indomitable will in the face of a superior natural force elicits grudging admiration.
Other Books by this Author
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First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Suspense
Conrad, Joseph.
Suspense.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1925.
First edition of Conrad’s last novel. Octavo, original cloth. With the original 4 pp. advertising pamphlet laid in, “A Selection from our 1925 Autumn List.” Very good in a very good dust jacket with some wear and rubbing. With an Introduction by Richard Curle. Jacket art by Thomas Derrick.
Price: $400.00
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The Works of Joseph Conrad; Inscribed by Joseph Conrad
Conrad, Joseph.
The Works of Joseph Conrad (Including Almayer’s Folly; An Outcast of the Islands; The Nigger of the Narcissus; Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim; Nostromo; The Secret Agent; Under Western Eyes).
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1923.
Octavo, original cloth, 22 volumes. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of Almayer’s Folly and Tales of Unrest, “To Claudine and Allan Wade from their friend Joseph Conrad 1923.” The recipients, Allan and Claudine Wade was an actor, director, bibliophile and founder of The Phoenix Society. In excellent condition.
Price: $3,000.00
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"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's The Rover
Conrad, Joseph.
The Rover.
London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1923.
First British edition of the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $300.00
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First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Suspense
Conrad, Joseph.
Suspense.
London: J.M. Dent, 1925.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Introduction by Richard Curle.
Price: $150.00
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“The calm was absolute, a dead, flat calm, the stillness of a dead sea and of a dead atmosphere": Joseph Conrad's The Rescue; Inscribed by Him
Conrad, Joseph.
The Rescue.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1922.
First edition, early printing of this later Conrad work. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt stamped to the front panel, gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece. Boldly inscribed by Joseph Conrad on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $1,800.00
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"All this life, must be life, since it is so much like a dream”: First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
Conrad, Joseph.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1904.
First American edition of what many consider to be the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00
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"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see": First Edition of Joseph Conrads Masterpiece Lord Jim
Conrad, Joseph.
Lord Jim.
London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1900.
First edition of one of Conrad’s finest novels. Octavo, original cloth. A near fine example with some wear to the extremities and the endpapers ever so slightly browned. First printing with the first issue points including the misprints “anyrate” p. 77, l. 5, “cure” (instead of “cured”) p. 226, 7 lines from the bottom, the omission of “keep” after “can” p. 226, 7 lines from the bottom, and “his” p. 319, last line, being printed below the line.
Price: $3,500.00
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“Love and regret go hand in hand in this world of changes swifter than the shifting of the clouds reflected in the mirror of the sea": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions
Conrad, Joseph.
The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions.
London: Methuen & Company, 1906.
First British edition of Conrad’s first volume of autobiographical non-fiction. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $350.00
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"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality": First edition of Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes
Conrad, Joseph.
Under the Western Eyes.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1911.
First edition of one of Conrad’s major works. Octavo, bound in contemporary boards with the gilt title from the original cloth spine adhered as a spine label. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00
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“HE WHO HATH KNOWN THE BITTERNESS OF THE OCEAN SHALL HAVE ITS TASTE FOREVER IN HIS MOUTH”: FIRST EDITION OF JOSEPH CONRAD'S FALK, AMY FOSTER, TO-MORROW THREE STORIES
Conrad, Joseph.
Falk, Amy Foster, To-morrow Three Stories.
New York: McClure, Phillips and Company, 1903.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition with light rubbing.
Price: $175.00
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“Never test another man by your own weakness": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim; Inscribed by Him
Conrad, Joseph.
Lord Jim.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1901.
First American edition of one of Conrad’s finest novels. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Signed for Richard Curle by Joseph Conrad this 24 January 1920.” Laid into this volume is also a letter from Curle, dated November 11th, 1922, which begins, “I saw in a catalogue a copy of a book signed to me by Conrad and thought to discover how it had got there…” Curle was a Scottish author, traveler and bibliophile and was a frequent correspondent of Conrad’s, for whom he acted as an assistant during the novelist’s later years. In excellent condition with some minor toning to the spine and light wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional association copy, most rare and desirable signed and inscribed and with noted provenance.
Price: $22,000.00
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“One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's The Shadow-Line: A Confession
Conrad, Joseph.
The Shadow-Line: A Confession.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1917.
First edition, first issue of this Conrad novel, based at sea. Octavo, original cloth, with the Aldine House logo to the front panel. In near fine condition with light rubbing.
Price: $125.00
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