Lord Jim
by Conrad, Joseph
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine /No DJ as Issued
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company. HANDSOMELY INSRIBED ON FFE BY JOSEPH CONRAD to world traveler, industrialist and financier Delos W. Cooke (nephew of J. P. Morgan). "Signed for Delos W. Cooke with friendly regards by Joseph Conrad, 1923" Personal stamp of Cooke's widow (Florence W. Cooke) appears inside front cover as well as under inscription. This appears to be a one-of-a-kind autographed single volume of Lord Jim. The book itself has been masterfully rebound (hardcover) by the incomparable Lehmann Bindery in full Oasis (English) goatskin leather. Hand sewn silk headbands. Endpapers consisting of originals and Skycraft Tiffany marble papers. All gold work done by hand using 23K gold.full leather. Photos available upon request. Expected light age toning to pages. Lovely decorative endpapers depicting a sailing ship at high sea. . Fine. Hardcover. 1923.
Synopsis
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim follows the events that determine the fate of Jim, a young British seaman. Jim becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship begins taking in water and disaster is sure to follow, Jim joins his captain and other crewmembers in abandoning the ship and its passengers. The crew is saved by a French ship a few days later and soon learns that the Patna and its passengers were also rescued. The crew’s reprehensible actions are exposed. As a trial ensues, Jim must come to terms with his past. Enter Marlow, sea captain and narrator of Lord Jim as well as three of Conrad’s other works (Heart of Darkness, Youth, and Chance). In spite of Jim’s moral unsoundness, Marlow befriends him during the trial and learns the full story of the Patna, which he relates to the reader. The primary event of Lord Jim may have been based in part on an actual abandonment of a ship. On July 17, 1880, S.S. Jeddah sailed for Penang and Jeddah from Singapore with 778 men, 147 women, and 67 children on board. When the vessel began to leak, the crew abandoned the passengers, who were also travelling to Mecca for the hajj. On August 8, 1880, a French steamship found Jeddah, rescuing all of the pilgrims. An official inquiry followed, as it does in the novel. Lord Jim is ranked 85th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel has been adapted for film twice: Lord Jim (1925), directed by Victor Fleming, and Lord Jim (1965), directed by Richard Brooks and starring Peter O'Toole.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Maxwell's House of Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019303
- Title
- Lord Jim
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1923
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- SIGNED JOSEPH CONRAD AUTOGRAPHED LORD JIM NOVELS NOVELISTS FICTION COLLECTIBLE J. P. MORGAN D. W. COOKE DELOS FLORENCE
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