A CONRAD MEMORIAL LIBRARY: The collection of George T. Keating.
Pp. xvi+454(last colophon, verso blank), coloured frontispiece portrait with lettered tissue guard, 13 black & white plates, title page vignette, numerous facsimiles; cr. 4to; blue cloth over bevelled boards, printed paper title label on spine and embossed cameo bust of Conrad at centre of upper board, spine label browned, the spine faded and foxed; t.e.g., others uncut; within black papered slipcase with printed label on spine, the slipcase lightly worn at edges; spare spine label tipped-in at end, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York, 1929. Edition limited to 501 numbered copies (425 for sale). *With the inked signature of artist H. Charles Tomlinson on the upper free endpaper. Tomlinson's father, Henry M. Tomlinson contributed the first chapter, on Almayer's Folly. Other contributors include Christopher Morley, Edward Garnett, the Powys brothers, Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, Arthur Symons, Arthur Machen, a.o. John Cowper Powys, in his article on Chance refers to Thomas J. Wise and the notorious copies of Chance with a 1913 inserted title page. Loosely inserted in this copy is a photographic postcard of Conrad and his wife. Item #157048
Price: $400.00