first edition Hard Cover
1926 · London
by Conrad, Joseph (Introduction By Richard Curle)
London: Strangeways, Printers, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Privately printed and limited to 100 copies. Green cloth cover with printed paper spine label. 35 deckle-edge pages with photo frontispiece of an actual diary page. Protective tissue present. Light wear. Minor sunning to spine; label chipped. Clean pages. Owned by famed book collector Waring Jones, whose signature (in ink) and edition annotation (in pencil) are on the front free endpaper. This is the foundation of Conrad's masterpiece, The Heart of Darkness.
(Inventory #: 008154)