Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
FROM CONRAD'S LIBRARY CONRAD, JOSEPH. The Nigger of the "Narcissus": Preface. [7] pages. 8vo, self-wrappers, 2 small erosions with residual stains from staples (lacking), light diagonal crease across first leaf, small crease to upper outer corner; custom silk-lined morocco folder and slipcase, the latter rubbed along front joint and spine ends. London: Privately printed by J. Lovick, Hythe/Cheriton, [1902]

Additional Details

one of only 100 copies, of which 40 are said to have been destroyed. Reprinted from the original serial appearance of The Nigger of the "Narcissus" in The New Review, December 1897 and suppressed from the first editions.
The verso of the last leaf bears the sticker: "From the Library of Joseph Conrad sold at Messrs. Hodgsons, March 13th, 1925" (Lot 49).