1902, ISBN: fac118d1f577de4e98dfee5a95195d44

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[SC: 11.45], [PU: Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902], BOOKS LITERATURE MODERN SIGNED COPIES PRESENTATION & INSCRIBED ONLINE CATALOGUES CATALOGUE 185 NOISBN, First edi… mais…

[SC: 11.45], [PU: Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902], BOOKS LITERATURE MODERN SIGNED COPIES PRESENTATION & INSCRIBED ONLINE CATALOGUES CATALOGUE 185 NOISBN, First edition, first impression, first issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the author "To Marguerite Poradowska. With the author's dear love. 20th Nov 1902" on the front free endpaper. The volume marks the first book form publication of three novellas by Conrad, including "Heart of Darkness", now his best-known work, and certainly his most enduring and influential. The recipient, Marguerite Poradowska (née Gachet) (1848-1937) was related to Conrad by her marriage in 1874 to Aleksandr Poradowka. Aleksandr was a first cousin of Conrad's maternal grandmother. Conrad first met the Poradowskas in February 1890 immediately before the death of Aleksandr and "Aunt Margaret" become one of Conrad's closest friends in his early pre-literary career. Although French by ancestry, Marguerite had grown up in Brussels before residing in the Austrian sector of Poland. When she returned to Brussels she began a career as a writer and eventually published eight novels, in addition to a number of short stories and novellas. There are 110 surviving letters from Conrad to Poradowska, mostly dated between 1890 and 1895. As noted by Karl and Davies in their edition of Conrad's Collected Letters, Marguerite Poradowska was a "fellow writer" who provided "a cosmopolitan link with Poland" and became a "confidante". There is also a suggestion that she was a partial model for both Marlow's "aunt" and also the "Intended" in "Heart of Darkness" In his bibliography of Conrad, William R. Cagle calls for "a 32 page publisher's catalogue dated at the foot of p. 32 '10/02' or '11/02'". This copy has the earlier catalogue dated "10/02". "A depressing African journey into the Congo Free State in 1890, when he travelled overland and in a paddle-steamer, would be recollected and powerfully transformed in his masterpiece. 'Heart of Darkness', which offered a forewarning of the Hitlerian demagogue, seems virtually inexhaustible in its recessive ambiguities and paradoxes" (ODNB). The story continues to attract fierce debate, and it has been called "one of the most powerful short novels in the English language" (Farrow). The three novellas were originally serialized in Blackwood's Magazine in 1898, 1899, and 1902 respectively. Of this volume, Conrad wrote: " 'Youth' and 'Heart of Darkness' are the first short stories of mine which attracted attention to my work in a wider sphere." (Wise). Karl and Davies, The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, 9 volumes, 1983-2008; Wise, A Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph Conrad, 1920, p. 19; Cagle A7a(1). Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in black with decorations in black. Housed in a custom green cloth folding box. Booklabel of William S. Reese in folding box. Corners very slightly bumped, spine toned, some minor foxing; a near-fine and fresh copy. Box slightly soiled.<

1902, ISBN: fac118d1f577de4e98dfee5a95195d44

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[SC: 54.88], [PU: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London], RARE FIRST EDITION,YOUTH-JOSEPH-CONRAD-FIRST-EDITION, First edition, first issue containing the first appearance in bo… mais…

[SC: 54.88], [PU: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London], RARE FIRST EDITION,YOUTH-JOSEPH-CONRAD-FIRST-EDITION, First edition, first issue containing the first appearance in book form of Heart of Darknessâ€"“one of the most powerful short novels in the English language” (Farrow, 14). Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. A nice example. Youth and Heart of Darkness were the first of Conrad’s stories to attract wider attention. Conrad’s “account of a superman running an ivory business in the heart of the Congo… is a masterpiece of sinister deterioration” (Connolly, Modern Movement 14). “A vast body of critical commentary has mined the dense richness and consciously paradoxical quality of this seminal modernist work, with its modern version of a Dantean journey into the Inferno, its Faustian figure of Kurtz provoking ambivalently fascinated horror… The influence of Heart of Darkness can be traced in writers as diverse as T.S. Eliot, Andre Gide, H.G. Wells, [Chinua] Achebe, William Golding, Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul, and George Steiner, while Francis Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now taps some of its rich imaginative possibilities by transposing it to the Vietnam War” (Stringer, 292).<

1902, ISBN: fac118d1f577de4e98dfee5a95195d44

[SC: 27.66], [PU: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh], First issue with publisher's ads dated 10/02 in rear. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth stamped in black, blac… mais…

[SC: 27.66], [PU: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh], First issue with publisher's ads dated 10/02 in rear. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth stamped in black, black and gilt-lettered spine; [8],375,[1],32pp. General wear to extremities, brief dent at spine crown, spine gilt and cloth rather faded, light foxing to textblock fore-edge, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown; rough erasure to gift inscription on front endpaper; Very Good only.<