The Nigger of the Narcissus.  With an introduction by Howard Mumford Jones and illustrations by Millard Sheets.  Los Angeles: The Limited Editions Club, 1965.

One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This being copy no. 1500.

Octavo. 184 pp. Including six inserted illustrated leaves. Publisher's quarter green morocco over green buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt, front cover decoration of a sailing ship beneath a blazing sun stamped in black and gilt, all edges stained green. A fine copy with original slipcase. Slipcase has one tear to paper on the top and a touch of sunning to edges, but is still near fine.

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.

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Newman & Wiche, 372.

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