CONRAD JOSEPH Collected Works Memorial Edition

Sale 2388 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 688

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

CONRAD, JOSEPH. Collected Works. Memorial Edition. 23 volumes. Titles in blue and black. Inserted frontispieces. 8vo, contemporary parchment pictorial gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, usual discoloration to boards, occasional rubbing to extremities with a few spine heads nicked or split; printed dust jackets, original glassine under-wrappers, small chips to spine panel tips on majority of volumes though only affecting lettering to three, first volume with spine panel separated and in two pieces; Ninah May Holden Cummer bookplates to front pastedowns. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925-26

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number 9 of an edition of 499 copies, this one of 99 copies signed by the author. Originally the set was to have been limited to 377 copies, all signed. However, Conrad died before the set was completed, and signed only ninety-nine of the limitation pages. These were incorporated into special sets of the Memorial Edition, which ran to 499 copies. Scarce in dust jackets.