CONRAD, JOSEPH. An Outcast of the Islands. T Fisher Unwin 1896, 1896.
Price: US$91.02 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE (ex-library; Colonial Edition, the earliest produced, with the following points present: p. 26 line 31: this for their / p. 110 line 12: absolution for ablution / p. 129 9 missing / p. 356 line 26: hate for fate); octavo green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 391pp, VG- (cocked, heavy rubbing and scuffing to boards, library number to spine and stamps within, front hinge cracked with prev. owner's tape repairs, prev. owner's name in coloured pencil to half title, moderate tanning foxing and soiling within - overall, scruffy)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Conrad, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands.. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1896 1896, 1896.
Price: US$151.42 + shipping
Description: First edition. (8), 391, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and top edge gilt, other edges rough-trimmed. Owner's signature on first free end paper. Spine heavily slanted, front board soiled and miscoloured, spine ends and corners quite heavily bumped, hinges cracked. Condition Good-. First printing of the first edition as indicated by the typographic errors on pages 26 ("this" instead of "their"), 129 (page numbered 10 instead of 129) and 356 ("hate" instead of "fate"). Conrad's second novel.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
CONRAD, Joseph. OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS. , 1896.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: CONRAD, Joseph. THE OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo., dark green cloth, spine in gilt, t.e.g., untrimmed. First edition. Ink ownership. Just a good copy; lightly cocked, with wear to cloth at extremes, shallow loss at the crown. Mild rubbing, soil to cloth, including a few faint dampstaing; hinges, ffep starting. With all faults:.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1896.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's dark green ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine, top edge gilt; plain endpapers; [viii],392pp; ad leaf at front, list of titles facing title page. Unfaded but rubbed with board exposed at upper edge, rear joint cracking, one or two spots of thumbsoil: Good or better. Conrad's second novel, published to "sufficient high praise to confirm [.his] choice of the literary career" (ODNB). One of 3000 copies printed. With "their" (p.26, l.31), "absolution" (p.110, l.12), "12" instead of "129" on p.129, and "hate" (p.356, l.26). EHRSAM 2222.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1896.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's second book. Title-page in red and black. 391, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cagle A2a; Smith 2; Wise 2; Ehrsam p. 293 Bound in three quarter crimson calf, t.e.g., for McGoff Booksellers, Liverpool. Spine slightly sunned, else fine. Bookplate of Pickford Waller Title-page in red and black. 391, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition of the author's second book.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. An Outcast of the Islands (with first issue points). T. Fisher Unwin, 1896.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "An Outcast of the Islands" by Joseph Conrad. T. Fisher Unwin, London. 1896 first UK edition (First issue, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, l. 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, l. 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, l. 26. Cagle A2(2) binding a; Ehrsam, p. 293; Keating 4; Smith 2; Wise, Conrad 2. Book in good condition, with original boards, one stain on cover, minor rubbing and wear to edges. Notes on front endpapers, complete. Rare first edition of Conrad's second novel.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
CONRAD, JOSEPH. An Outcast of the Islands. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1896.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth, gilt, soiled and bumped at corners, head and heel. Conforms to all the points of a first edition, first issue (p212, line 19 the letter "t" is missing). Two bookplates inside front cover, stamp on front free endpaper with a remnant of an article, occasional foxing, p225 starting, but holding, Rear endpaper repaired, with writing inside rear cover. Author's second book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
CONRAD, Joseph.. An Outcast of the Islands.. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896, 1896.
Price: US$896.20 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, l. 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, l. 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, l. 26. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Small chip to head of spine, wear to tips, central scratches to front cover, contents lightly toned in the margins, and occasional small spots of foxing; a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). An Outcast of the Islands. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1896.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo (200 x 128 mm; 7 7/8 x 5 in.) . [ii, ads], [vi], 391, [1] pages. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others uncut. A near-fine copy, the top gilt lightly abraded in a few spots, one short closed tear at head of spine, slight wear at extremities. Provenance: H. Stuart Hotchkiss (1913 ownership inscription on front free endpaper). Hotchkiss (ca 1878-1947), a member of Yale's class of 1900 and a lieutenant colonel in the Army during the First World War, was an executive at the United States Rubbed Company in New Haven before becoming President and Chairman of the Board of the Cambridge Rubber Company. He devoted much of his career to developing rubber plantations in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. FIRST EDITION of Conrad's second book, a publication hastily sent to press with multiple errors after its original electrotype plates were destroyed by fire and it was reset. First issue, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, l. 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, l. 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, l. 26. Cagle A2(2) binding a; Ehrsam, p. 293; Keating 4; Smith 2; Wise, Conrad 2.
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
CONRAD Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands. , 1896.
Price: US$960.22 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., a very good copy in original vertically-ribbed dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., fore-edges uncut, binding a little shaken but firm. London, T. Fisher Unwin. Conrad's second novel following ?Almayer's Folly? of the previous year. This copy displays first printing points in having the misprints ?this? for ?their? on line 31, p.26; ?absolution? for ?ablution? p. 110, line 12; ?9? omitted from the page number on p. 129, and ?hate? for ?fate? on p. 356, line 26. That there are so few mistakes is surprising as a fire destroyed the original electrotype plates late in 1895, and the book was hastily reset.?An Outcast? was published in March 1896 and the critics were generally kind. The most telling notice appeared in the ?Saturday Review? - while the anonymous reviewer praised the work as ?perhaps the finest piece of fiction that has been published this year, as 'Almayer's Folly' was one of the finest that was published in 1895?, he also wrote ?One fault it has, and a glaring fault . Mr. Conrad is wordy; his story is not so much told as seen intermittently through a haze of sentences . He has still to learn the great half of his art, the art of leaving things unwritten? Conrad was deeply upset and wrote to the unknown critic. On May 24th., 1896, he wrote to Edward Garnett: ?I wrote to the reviewer. I did! And he wrote to me. He did! And who do you think it is? - He lives in Woking. Guess. Can't tell? I will tell you. It is H.G. Wells. May I be cremated alive like a miserable moth if I suspected it! Anyway he descended from his 'Time-machine' to be as kind as he knew how? Wells had replied that Conrad had ?everything for the making of a splendid novelistic dexterity? Two years later Conrad was to tell Wells: ?For the last two years (since your review of the 'Outcast' in the 'Saturday Review' compelled me to think seriously of many things till then unseen) I have lived on terms of close intimacy with you, referring to you many a page of my work, scrutinising many sentences by the light of your criticism. You are responsible for many sheets torn up and also for those that remained untorn? Cagle A2(a); Wise 2.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Conrad, Joseph. AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS. , 1896.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: [Shakespeare & Co. copy] London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original dark green cloth. First Edition of Conrad's second book, preceded only by (and containing many of the same characters as) ALMAYER'S FOLLY. After Edward Garnett (then a reader at Unwin's) had "discovered" Conrad and had published his first book, he worked very closely with Conrad on this one -- so much so that some biographers have suggested that Garnett's name should have appeared on the title page as co-author. AN OUTCAST is considered the middle volume of Conrad's only trilogy; the third volume, which he began right after AN OUTCAST but could not complete for almost a quarter of a century, was ultimately published in 1920 as THE RESCUE. The front endpaper of this copy bears the inkstamp of "Shakespeare and Company / Sylvia Beach Whitman / Kilometer Zero Paris". This legendary English-language bookshop / free library / publisher was run by Sylvia Beach from 1919 to 1941 (supposedly shut down then because she declined to sell her last copy of FINNEGAN'S WAKE to a German officer). Sylvia Beach's bookstore had been the gathering-place for such writers as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T.S. Eliot -- with the highlight of that era being its publication of the first edition of ULYSSES. In 1951 George Whitman opened a similar English-language bookshop, Le Mistral, which likewise became a focal point for Left-Bank literary circles (especially the Beats); when Sylvia Beach died in 1962, she willed to Whitman the name of her former shop; Whitman not only adopted the Shakespeare and Co. name (in April 1964, on William's 400th birthday), he also named his daughter Sylvia Beach Whitman -- who still runs the shop today. This is a near-fine copy, with little wear other than a cracked-and-reglued front endpaper; the two covers have some very faint dampmarks. Cagle A2a.1.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands. Fisher Unwin, London, 1896.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: rubricated title, 8vo, handsomely rebound in 3/4 green morocco, tan spine label, marbled boards & t.e.g. London: Fisher Unwin, 1896. First Edition. A fine copy. First Edition of the author's second book.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CONRAD, JOSEPH.. An Outcast of the Islands. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896, 1896.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of the author's second book. Bookplate; very good plus. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing of Conrad's second book. Original green cloth. An excellent copy with bright and unfaded gilt to spine, only a few small spots of slight discoloration to the front cover and a small scuff to the rear cover, else fine. Housed in custom quarter leather box with a folding chemise.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1896.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, l. 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, l. 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, l. 26. Title-page in red and black. [ii, ads], [vi], 391, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo (200 x 135 mm). Presentation Copy, Inscribed. Presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed "From the author" on the front flyleaf (Galsworthy's copy, also a presentation, bore a similar inscription, Seeger part I, lot 9, Sotheby's, 10 July 2013). With a pencil note on the front pastedown that this copy was "Inscribed by the author to F.C. Redmayne. "The publication of Conrad's second book was plagued with problems. A fire destroyed the original electrotype plates late in 1895 and the book was hastily reset and proofed, leaving in an inordinate number of typos and dropped letters. The number of copies printed is unknown, but presentation copies as fine as this are rarely encountered. Cagle A2(2) binding a; Ehrsam, p. 293; Keating 4; Smith 2; Wise, Conrad 2 Publisher's green cloth, gilt spine title, gilt top edge. Minor browning to endleaves, else very fine Title-page in red and black. [ii, ads], [vi], 391, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo (200 x 135 mm) First edition, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, l. 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, l. 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, l. 26.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: A Superb Sangorski & Sutcliffe Cosway-Style Binding First Edition, First Issue of Joseph Conrad's Second Novel COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. CONRAD, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. First edition, first issue. Octavo (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 197 x 124 mm.). [ii, ads], [vi], 391, [1] pp. Title-page in red and black. First issue, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, line 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, line 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, line 26. Bound ca, 1940 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco over beveled boards, covers elaborately bordered in gilt with decorative anchor corner-pieces, front cover with a sailing ship in gilt. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board-edges and turn-ins, blue watered silk endleaves. Inside front cover with a large rectangular panel of green morocco with a superb and exquisite oval portrait miniature of Joseph Conrad (3 x 2 3/8 inches) under glass and surrounded by a gilt metal frame. Original green cloth covers and spine bound in at end. Housed in the original fleece-lined blue cloth clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. Front hinge of clamshell case neatly repaired, otherwise fine. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of nineteenth-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. An Outcast of the Islands was the second novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1896, and inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over his lust for the tribal chief's daughter. The story features Conrad's recurring character Tom Lingard, who also appears in Almayer's Folly (1895), in addition to sharing other characters with that novel. It is considered by many to be underrated as a work of literature. Conrad romanticizes the jungle environment and its inhabitants in a similar style to that of his Heart of Darkness.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph.. An Outcast of the Islands.. London: T. Fisher Unwinn, 1896, 1896.
Price: US$9602.18 + shipping
Description: First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Conrad on the front free endpaper, "With the Author's compliments". Presentation copies are scarce, particularly so in this condition. The printing of the first edition was fraught with difficulties: a fire destroyed the original electrotype plates and the first impression was hastily set, which resulted in numerous typographical errors (for example, "this" for "their" on p. 26, l. 31; "absolution" for "ablution" on p. 110, l. 12; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, l. 26). On publication, the novel was met with "sufficient high praise to confirm him in the choice of the literary career" (ODNB). Cagle A2a.1 (or 2); Wise 2; Wise, A Conrad Library, p. 2. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco folding box. Title page printed in red and black. Spine ends bumped, a few minor marks to cloth, endpapers browned, inner hinged partly cracked, but firm, contents clean. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom