Lord Jim. With an introduction by Nicholas Monsarrat and with color lithographs by Lynd Ward. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1959.
One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This being copy no. 259.
Quarto. 418 pp. Publisher's quarter dark blue morocco over decorated paper boards, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, all edges stained blue, full color frontispiece. Slight discoloration to endpapers, else a fine copy. With original slipcase. Slipcase is sunned and lightly soiled, with damp staining to one side, but still solid.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-born British writer, whom many critics consider one of the best novelists in the English language (even more impressive when you take into account he didn't learn English until he was in his twenties). He was an important fore-runner of the modernist movement, influencing writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, and William S. Burroughs.
Newman & Wiche, 300.
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3828
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75