The Works of Joseph Conrad. London: William Heinemann, [1921].
Signed Limited Edition, number 204 out of 780.
Complete in twenty octavo volumes. Bound by Bumpus in contemporary half brown levant morocco over marbled boards. Spines paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endleaves. With original covers and spines bound-in at rear of each volume. Several volumes re-hinged, some rubbing and mild wear to several joints, some rubbing to edges, a few volumes with a few dark marks on binding. Overall, a good set.
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. Much of his work concerns the moral dilemmas encountered by people who gain too much power (perhaps the best example of this is his novella, Heart of Darkness, 1898, which inspired Francis Ford Coppola's epic film, Apocalypse Now, 1979).
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