[CONRAD JOSEPH] The Nigger of the Narcissus Preface

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[CONRAD, JOSEPH.] The Nigger of the "Narcissus" Preface. 7 pages. 8vo, self-wrappers, two small residual stains from staple; housed in chemise within brown 1/4 morocco slipcase, spine rubbed. Hythe: Privately printed J. Lovick, [1902]

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first separate edition of conrad's famously suppressed manifesto and one of only 100 unnumbered copies printed, though Wise reckons "about forty of these were accidentally destroyed." Reprinted from the first serial publication in The New Review in 1897. Wise 12.