The Works of Joseph Conrad (20 Volume set - Complete) SIGNED by Joseph Conrad - 1921

J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1923. Hardcover. Good. 1923. Uniform Edition. 289 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Heavier tanning and foxing to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.

London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1923. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. xv, 566pp. Uniform edition 1923. Spine and top edge of front board slightly faded. Previous owner's details to front free end-paper. A rather pleasing copy. (r35). Hard Cover. Good +/No Jacket.

London: J. M Dent & Sons, 1923. Red Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Z A twenty - two volume set by Joseph Conrad, attractively bound uniformly in the original publisher's red cloth with gilt embosed vignette to the front board and lettering to the spines. A charming set. The titles includeThe Inheritors : An Extravagant Story, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, Tales of Hearsay and Last Essays, Youth : a Narrative & two other stories, Chance : a tale in two Parts, Nostromo : A Tale of the Seaboard, The Rover, The Rescue : A Romance of the Shallows, Lord Jim, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Typhoon, The Mirror of the Sea & A Personal Record, The Shdow Lins & Within the Tides, Notes of Life & Letters, The Arrow of Gold, Romance - A Novel, Victory An Island Tale, Suspense, Almayer's Folly and Tales of Unrest, Twixt Land & Sea Tales, a Set of Six, and An Outcast of the Islands. The spines of the books are… Read More

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE and CO., 1920-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . 17-volume set ONLY. Missing volumes 9 (A Set of Six), 19 (The Rover), and 20 (Suspense). Volume 1 is SIGNED by Joseph Conrad. This is set #85 of a limited edition of 735. Covers show moderate wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, soiling. Volume 4 (Lord Jim) has detached boards. Pages are tanned and clean.

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Signed. [Autographed, Signed by Joseph Conrad on the limitation page of the first volume.] 18 (of the 24) volume set. Sun-dial edition, limited to 735 copies. Includes: Volumes 1-3, 5-19. Lacking v.4 & 20-22. 23 cm. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's brown cloth over blue boards. Some of the spines are discolored, browned, rubbed. *Autographed by author.* Contents: 1. Almayer's folly. Tales of unrest; 2. An outcast of the islands; 3. The nigger of the Narcissus. Typhoon, and other stories; 5. Youth, a narrative, and two other stories; 6. Romance, by J. Conrad and F.M. Hueffer; 7. Nostromo; 8. The secret agent; 9.; 10. Under western eyes; 11. A personal record. The mirror of the sea; 12. Twixt land and sea; 13. Chance; 14. The shadow-line. Within the tides; 15. Victory; 16. The arrow of gold; 17. The rescue; 18. Notes on life and letters; 19. The rover. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires… Read More

Dent, London., 1923-24. First edition thus: Uniform Edition. Octavo. Twenty volumes. A further two volumes were issued in 1928. Red cloth with gilt decoration.Free endpapers partially tanned. One or two spines are slightly faded at the head. A fine set in the scarce dustwrappers some of which are a bit darkened at the spine and with a few nicks and small chips. Impressive.

London: William Heinemann, 1921. 20 volumes. The scarce and handsome Autograph Edition SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY JOSEPH CONRAD. Tall 8vo, in the publisher's original tan buckram cloth, over brown paper covered boards, the spines lettered in black, the upper covers with autograph of Conrad in black. A very good and handsome set, some mellowing to the spine panels and other light evidence of age, a few spots here or there, still a pleasing and handsome set. A pleasing, autographed set of Conrad's works. The tasteful presentation is fitting to this master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. His stories and novels, many with nautical settings, depict the trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, André Malraux, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Gabriel García Márquez, John le… Read More

William Heinemann, 1921. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Copy #327 of 780 copies, signed by author Joseph Conrad on limitation page in volume I. A very good set in original tan cloth over boards, stamped in red and black (minor wear; slight traces of staining to boards; unusual offset to endpapers). 20 volumes. With the bookseller's label from Subun-So in Tokyo on pastedown in volume I.

Heinemann. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1921. Hardcover. 20 volumes in jacket. Set 219/780. Volumes are mostly in VG+ condition with some toning. Volume 20 is foxed and more heavily toned. The jackets show some rubbing and are worn along edges. The jacket for volume 19 is missing a chip at top of spine. The jacket for volume 20 is heavily foxed (as seen in photo). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920-1926. Sun-Dial Edition. Hardcover. Octavos; 24 Volumes; G+ to VG-; Blue cloth backed boards; SIGNED by Conrad in volume 1 and numbered 264 of a limited edition of 735; All volumes show some wear to the edges, bumping at the corners; Text block age toned; Some spines slightly cocked; Shelved Above WWI. 1356449. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Harpercollins, 1991. First edition, as stated, first printing . Hardcover. Fine/near fine. r. 446 pp. This is a rare first edition copy signed by both Oliver North and William Novak. North's inscription, "Margo and Sam, all the best," appears in blue ink on the half title page with North's signature and the date "3 Nov 91" and Novak's signature in black ink. Dust jacket slightly wrinkled at top of spine. Free USPS tracking with every US order. Ships from MA.

New York: Continuum, 2006. 8vo size trade paperback with black and white photo illustrated cover; 414 pages From back: "Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denikikan, was opened in Tokyo in 1903 and within 13 years 300 cinemas had sprung up throughout the country... (The author) focuses on the historical development of Japanese film, illustrated by a series of typical Japanese film posters. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation." Edgewear, creases to bottom and bottom and top corners of front cover, soil on bottom and light soil to outside pages. We note pencilled underlining on at least 29 pages and pencilled marginalia on at least three pages and four creased page corners. Quotes… Read More

New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. Fine in Near Fine jacket Signed by Author A Gideon Oliver Mystery, SIGNED on title pg. Edgar Award winner best mystery npc 197pp. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition

1990 (INSCRIBED BY THE EDITORS) "Best wishes to Frances McLaughlin fellow member of the writers guild" Rosalie Davis Mathilde Ruggles (Collette) Hurrah for My New Free Country covers a wide span of events, from the settlement of Kansas in the late 1860s (which included Indian wars and the near-extermination of the buffalo), to the Oklahoma land rush, to the peaceful growth of the area around Chandler, Oklahoma, in the early 1900s." Book: clean and unmarked - pages are crisp/white DJ: minimal shelfwear - colors are vibrant

New York: Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Softcover. The artist's abstract and quite varied series of 43 drawings of flags, all printed monochrome on the recto of pages. Kingsley Parker has been exhibiting and represented by galleries since the mid-1970s and has a work in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, NY. The artist is quite active with new works. Signed in ink "K. Parker/1976 ©" in the front matter where Parker explains his motivation for drawing the series of abstract flags. Copy 158 of a limited edition of 600, numbered in the colophon. Approximately 44 pages, unpaginated. Printed on fine, machine-made paper in brown wraps. The title and a flag drawing are framed on the front cover. In absolutely clean, Fine condition. ; Drawings; Square 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Artist .

New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2003. Z2 - A Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus Edition hardcover book SIGNED by the Charlaine Harris in as new condition in as new dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead. 8.5"x5.75", 612 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).

RARE. Collectible: 1916. Signed by the author. Cambridge MA: University Press. Very Good. Hardcover. Light soil to green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped title, author's name, and design. A bright solid, book - 27 pages; Inside covers are sunned. Pages clean and bright. Frontspiece. "View from Mrs. Thaxter's Garden Gate. 29 illustrations. Small book: 7" x 5"

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.

True FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated). "Flap Jacket Press trade paperback edition / First Printing July 2007" on copyright page. This small run printing precedes the hardback edition. NEW. Cover Clean, no wear, no tears, no spine creases, protected in Brodart cover. Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Books are Carefully Packed in a Box and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from Dry, Smoke-Free shop. Complete Satisfaction Guaranteed. B103

SIGNED, FIRST UK LIMITED EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated, complete number line to 1) Harvill Secker, London, 2010. NEW, Unread. Author's Signature, no inscription, on a bookplate attached to the first chapter page. Note on bookplate reads "This edition of I Curse the River of Time, signed by the author, is limited to 1,000 copies". Dust Jacket Bright in Brodart protective cover, Clean, no wear, no tears, not price clipped (£12.99). Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Not book club. Fast shipping from Dry, Smoke-Free home. Email Confirmation with Tracking Number. International ships Air Mail.