CONRAD JOSEPH Autograph Letter Signed J Conrad to an unnamed

Sale 2316 - Lot 217

Price Realized: $ 3,120

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

A PHOTOGRAPH "MAY HELP TO FETCH A FEW PENCE MORE" CONRAD, JOSEPH. Autograph Letter Signed, "J. Conrad," to an unnamed bookseller ("Dear Sir"), reporting that signed copies of Lord Jim and Typhoon are on their way and discussing photographs of the author. 2 pages, oblong 8vo, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet, "Capel House" stationery; tipped at left edge to a larger sheet, soiling to vertical fold affecting text, faint scattered foxing. Orlestone [Kent], 6 November 1917

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"The books are going by tonight's post, a copy of Lord Jim containing a most repulsive photograph of the author--but one can't stop that sort of thing--The other is an Am[erican] copy of the blue leather edition of Typhoon. You'll find inside the latest photograph of myself--which tells its own tale, tho' I don't think it can convey any information to the enemy. Perhaps if pasted on the fly-leaf, it may help to fetch a few pence more for the copy of Typhoon. but if you don't think so . . . post it back to me as there are only 3 more copies in existence, of which one reposes in the pocket-book of a young man at the front and the other two are in this house belonging to my wife and small boy. I've signed the books as requested."