CONRAD JOSEPH Youth A Narrative and Two Other Stories

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CONRAD, JOSEPH. Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories. Half-title. 32 pages advertisements at end. 8vo, original pale green cloth, decorated and titled in black on front cover, spine gilt lettered and decorated in black, slightly cocked, light rubbing to corners and spine tips, minor foxing to top and fore-edges; Edward Joseph Dent bookplate to front pastedown; 1/4 leather custom clamshell case. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1902

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first edition, first issue with advertisements dated "10/02." Conrad's story collection that includes "Heart of Darkness." Ex-collection Cambridge musicologist Dent, friend of E.M. Forster and the basis for one of the novelist's characters in Where Angels Fear to Tread. Laid-in is a photograph of Conrad taking a sun sight with sextant on the bridge of the Tuscania, on his trip from Glasgow to America in April, 1923. Wise 10; Ehrsam p.326.