TALES OF UNREST
by Conrad, Joseph
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
First English Edition of Conrad's fourth book -- his first collection of short stories (including "An Outpost of Progress," a Congo tale anticipating his later "Heart of Darkness"). The American edition by Scribner's is believed to have come out about ten days earlier. For this U.K. edition Cagle estimates a printing of about 1,250 copies, while Wise and Smith estimate 3,000 (but that figure probably included copies for the colonies); in 1906 copies of this first impression were offered by the Times Book Club. "Some copies have the top-edge trimmed but not gilt, and endpapers of laid paper... This difference is probably indicative of a later binding-up in the batch-binding process" [Supino]. This copy is in this (scarcer) secondary binding state -- with top edge plain, and with laid-paper endpapers. It is in bright, near-fine condition (a few faint cover marks). Supino A4.7.0 (secondary binding); Cagle A4c.1. Provenance: early endpaper signature of M. McRorie, "Strathearn" [Scotland]; discreet bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino.
Synopsis
Of the five stories in this volume, The Lagoon, the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions. Conceived in the same mood which produced Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands, it is told in the same breath (with what was left of it, that is, after the end of An Outcast), seen with the same vision, rendered in the same method - if such a thing as method did exist then in my conscious relation to this new adventure of writing for print.
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- Sumner & Stillman (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 15278
- Title
- TALES OF UNREST
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- Africa; Congo; Maritime
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- Fiction (19th Century); Maritime;
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