SPLENDIDLY BOUND “SUN-DIAL” EDITION OF CONRAD’S WORKS, SIGNED BY HIM
CONRAD, Joseph. The Works. Garden City: Doubleday, Page; Doubleday, Doran, 1920-26. Twenty-two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full red morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, green morocco doublures, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partly unopened.
Signed limited “Sun-Dial Edition” of Conrad’s works, number 439 of 735 sets, signed in the first volume by Conrad, splendidly bound in elaborately full morocco-gilt with morocco doublures and silk endpapers. An exceptional uncut copy.
"Conrad's work at its best achieved a synthesis of theme, treatment and language of a kind without precedent in English literature… To a degree beyond the ordinary, he owed his fame to the good fortune of a remarkable life-story which enabled him to use as material for fiction many strange and picturesque experiences" (DNB). With photographic frontispiece portrait of Conrad in Almayer's Folly.
Fine condition.