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NOTES ON LIFE & LETTERS
by Conrad, Joseph
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About This Item
1921. London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1921. Original olive-green cloth, with dust jacket.
First Edition (preceded by a 35-copy privately-printed issue). This is a collection of pieces that had appeared, over the prior two years, as 25-copy pamphlets produced by Clement Shorter and by T.J. Wise. This copy is in the third and usual state, with a cancel leaf for pages xi-xii, to correct the "S" and "A" of "SEA" lacking in the Table of Contents. The first state lacks these two letters entirely; the second state retains the original leaf but with those two letters hand-stamped in. Supino, drawing from a statement from a Dent official, says that the 9,450-copy first edition consisted of 100, 900 and 8,450 copies in the three states respectively. This is a fine, bright copy; the notoriously brittle dust jacket is very good (minor edge-wear that includes a few small chips, spine slightly faded). Supino A23.4.0 (this copy); Cagle A51a(2). Provenance: discreet bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino (plus his brief notation on the endpaper).
First Edition (preceded by a 35-copy privately-printed issue). This is a collection of pieces that had appeared, over the prior two years, as 25-copy pamphlets produced by Clement Shorter and by T.J. Wise. This copy is in the third and usual state, with a cancel leaf for pages xi-xii, to correct the "S" and "A" of "SEA" lacking in the Table of Contents. The first state lacks these two letters entirely; the second state retains the original leaf but with those two letters hand-stamped in. Supino, drawing from a statement from a Dent official, says that the 9,450-copy first edition consisted of 100, 900 and 8,450 copies in the three states respectively. This is a fine, bright copy; the notoriously brittle dust jacket is very good (minor edge-wear that includes a few small chips, spine slightly faded). Supino A23.4.0 (this copy); Cagle A51a(2). Provenance: discreet bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino (plus his brief notation on the endpaper).
Synopsis
The twenty-six essays collected in Notes on Life and Letters offer a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the Titanic disaster, First World War, and the re-emergence of his native Poland as a nation state. The introduction gives the history of the gathering of these diverse pieces into a single volume, traces the book's reception, and offers new perspectives on its relationship to Conrad's other writings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15415
- Title
- NOTES ON LIFE & LETTERS
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1921
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nonfiction;
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Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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