Lot 562

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) - A collection of 35 books about Joseph Conrad. Please see the full listing below. (35)

Estimate: £300 - £500
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CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) - A collection of 35 books about Joseph Conrad comprising J. G. Sutherland's At Sea With Conrad ... With a Foreword by Joseph Conrad (London, 1922, large 8vo, half tone plates, original hessian-backed paper boards, ONE OF 1,250 COPIES, TWO COPIES), Harriet M. Capes' Wisdom and Beauty from Conrad (London, [c.1922], 8vo, original cloth), Hugh Walpole's Joseph Conrad ... New and Revised Edition (London, 1924, 8vo, original cloth), Ford Madox Ford's Joseph Conrad. A Personal Remembrance (London, 1924, 8vo, frontispiece portrait of Conrad, original green cloth gilt, spine split), Arthur Symons' Notes on Joseph Conrad. With Some Unpublished Letters (London, Myers & Co., 1925, 4to, frontispiece portrait of Conrad, text printed in red and black, original paper boards, dust-jacket, jacket torn with minor loss), Jessie Conrad's Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him (London, 1926, 8vo, plates, original red cloth gilt), the same author's Joseph Conrad and his Circle (London, 1935, large 8vo, half tone plates, later black textured cloth gilt), Arthur J. Price's An Appreciation of Joseph Conrad ... With an Introduction by David W. Oates (London, [1931], 8vo, plate, original cloth-backed paper boards), Thomas Moser's Joseph Conrad. Achievement and Decline (Cambridge [U.S.], Harvard University Press, 1957, 8vo, original blue cloth, dust-jacket), Gérard Jean-Aubry's The Sea Dreamer: A Definitive Biography of Joseph Conrad (London, 1957, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, first English edition, TWO COPIES), Eloise Knapp Hay's The Political Novels of Joseph Conrad. A Critical Study (Chicago, 1963, large 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), Zdzislaw Najder's Conrad's Polish Background. Letters to and from Polish Friends (London, 1964, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), Leo Gurko's Joseph Conrad. Giant in Exile (London, 1965, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), Norman Sherry's Conrad's Eastern World (Cambridge, 1966, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, TWO COPIES), Jocelyn Baines Joseph Conrad. A Critical Biography (London, 1967, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, fourth impression, TWO COPIES, the second a paperback edition of 1986), Jerry Allen's The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad (London, 1967, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, TWO COPIES), Bernard C. Meyer's Joseph Conrad. A Psychoanalytic Biography (Princeton, 1967, large 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), Albert J. Guerard's Conrad the Novelist (New York, 1967, 8vo, paperback, reprint), Claire Rosenfield's Paradise of Snakes. An Archetypal Analysis of Conrad's Political Novels (Chicago, 1967, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), Paul Kirschner's Conrad: The Psychologist as Artist (Edinburgh, 1968, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), E. H. Visiak's The Mirror of Conrad (New York, 1968, 8vo, plates, original brown cloth, dust-jacket, reprint), C. T. Watts' Joseph Conrad's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham (Cambridge, 1969, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), Osborn Andreas's Joseph Conrad. A Study in Non-conformity (Hamden, Connecticut, Archon Books, 1969, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, reprint), Borys Conrad's My Father: Joseph Conrad (London, 1970, 8vo, half tone plates, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket), Norman Sherry's Conrad's Western World (Cambridge, 1971, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), the same author's Conrad. The Critical Heritage (London, 1973, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), Norman Sherry's Conrad and his World (London, 1972, 4to, original cloth, dust-jacket) and Iain Finlayson's Writers in Romney Marsh (London, 1986, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), most FIRST EDITIONS, except where otherwise indicated; together with two issues of The Book Collector with articles on Joseph Conrad's Chance by William R. Cagle (in the Autumn 1967 issue) and Donald Rule (in the Autumn 1978 issue) respectively. Included in the lot is a small quantity of related manuscript and printed ephemera in the form of bookseller's letters, typescripts, receipts, etc. Provenance: The Property of a Collector. Please note that only a part of the lot is illustrated. The lot sold as a quantity, not subject to return. (35)

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