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Price: US$28.75 + shipping
Description: Facsimiles; frontis portrait by Leonard Baskin, 11.5 x 9, marbled boards, 79 pp, covers with edgewear, label removed from bottom of spine, hinges loose, contents nice, no slipcase. LIMITEDTO 1100 NUMBERED COPIES. A cheap copy, if you just want to read the essay.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The History of the Preface to "The Nigger of the Narcissus", with Facsimiles of the Manuscripts, Edited with an Essay by David R. Smith. Woodcut portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin. 4to, marbled boards, paper label. Philadelphia, 1966. Limited Edition. One of 1100 copies, printed at the Gehenna Press. Fine in publisher's board box.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Marbled paper-covered boards with cover label, slipcase and chemise, 4to., 78, (3) pages, illustrated with facsimiles of the manuscript and a woodcut portrait frontispiece and wood engraved printer's marks by Leonard Baskin. One of 1,100 numbered copies printed by Harold McGrath at the Gehenna Press in two colors from Van Dijck types on Fabriano paper. Facsimiles printed at Meriden Gravure. Binding rubbed at extremities, else a clean, very good copy in very good, moderately worn and soiled chemise and slipcase, with the spine label incorporating "Godine" as well as Rosenbach.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Slipcase lightly soiled, otherwise fine.
Seller: Highfield Books Online, Westbrook, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited to 1100 copies. 79p. With a portrait frontispiece by Leonard Baskin taken from the original block, and with facsimilies of manuscript. 4to. Marbeled paper over boards, with paper title label on upper cover, housed in gray paper over boards chemise and slipcase with paper spine label. Gehenna Press 49.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. 4to. 1/1,100 305 by 241mms pp 81 Original publisher's marbled boards with printed spine label on cover. Nummer 338 of 1100 copies on hand made paper. Fine solander box with printed spine label.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Description: pp. 79, (v). Portrait of Conrad by LEONARD BASKIN. Marbled boards, uncut on hand-made paper, card chemise and slip-case, a very good copy.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Marbled paper-covered boards with cover label, paper-covered board slipcase with spine label and chemise, 4to., 78, (2) pages, wood engraved frontispiece and press-marks by Leonard Baskin. One of 1,100 numbered copies printed by Harold McGrath at the Gehenna Press on Fabriano paper. The facsimiles were made by Meriden Gravure. Laid in are the four-page prospectus, a single sheet proof copy of four pages of the book, including the frontispiece engraving, and the original invoice. Wear to the extremities, else a near fine copy in a mildly soiled chemise and a slipcase with one water stain.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "The history of the preface to "The Nigger of the Narcissus" with facsimiles of the manuscripts edited with an essay by David R. Smith". The book, in fine condition. has decorated boards with cover label in gray board chemise and slipcase. The slipcase shows tanning towards edges of boards and spine and minor and few spots. The chemise has a tiny split to upper corner front. Wood-engraved portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin as frontispiece. This is #160 of 1,100 numbered copies printed by Harold McGrath at the Gehenna Press on Fabriano paper.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Conrad's Manifesto: Preface to a Career. Gehenna Press, Philadelphia, 1966.
Price: US$96.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. 80pp. Decorated boards with cover label in gray board chemise and slipcase. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly rubbed. Fore-and bottom page edges untrimmed. Minor stains to slipcase. Title plate to slipcase. Frontispiece. "The history of the preface to "The Nigger of the Narcissus" with facsimiles of the manuscripts edited with an essay by David R. Smith". Joseph Conrad's preface to the Nigger of the "Narcissus" is perhaps the single best known critical statement concerning modern fiction in English. Printed on Fabriano paper. The frontispiece woodcut portrait of Conrad is by Leonard Baskin. One of 1100 copies. In very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition, numbered copy, 1 of 1100. Portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin. A nicely produced book. Very fine copy in lightly soiled slipcase.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$134.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, 42 leaves. Printed in Monotype Van Dijck on Fabriano. Woodcut portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin. Bound in French marbled paper over boards and paper label. In paper covered chemise and matching slipcase. Of 1100 copies, this is one of 1000. A fine uncut copy. Brook 49, Baskin 49. This is one of the "few hundred copies" that were purchased by David Godine and issued with his printed label on the spine of the slipcase.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: No. 65 of 1100 copies. 78, [3] pp. woodcut frontispiece portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin, 13 pp. facsimiles of the manuscripts. 1 vols. Small 4to. Marbled paper boards. Fine in original slipcase and chemise 78, [3] pp. woodcut frontispiece portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin, 13 pp. facsimiles of the manuscripts. 1 vols. Small 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: [First edition]. "The History of the Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' with facsimiles of the manuscripts edited with an essay by David R. Smith." With woodcut portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin. ** No.795 of 1100 copies. ** Original marbled paper boards, with small title label printed in red and black on front; a bit of rubbing to extremities; contents excellent. In putty-grey chemise and slipcase, the latter with paper title label printed in black on spine, both in excellent condition. A fine copy, of a most attrctive production. (Contains facsimiles and transcriptions of the manuscripts of the 1897 Preface and of the 1914 "To My Readers in America"; the supressed 1902 "Hythe" Preface; together with a foreword, and the title essay by David R. Smith.).
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$156.00 + shipping
Description: 305 x 241 mm. (12 x 9 1/2"). 81 pp. (including 15 photographic facsimiles).Facsimiles of the manuscripts for "Narcissus" edited and with an essay by David R. Smith. Distinctive marbled paper boards, enclosed in the original textured heavy inner folder and matching slipcase, paper labels on volume and case. Frontispiece portrait by Leonard Baskin. Printed in red and black, with very wide margins, on elegant Fabriano paper. âIn mint condition and IN THE ORIGINAL CARDBOARD PACKING CONTAINER. This finely produced book examines the history and significance of Conrad's famous preface, which may be the best-known critical statement in English concerning modern fiction. About writing "Narcissus" and its preface, Conrad said, "After writing the last words of that book, . . . I understood that I had done with the sea, and that henceforth I had to be a writer. And almost without laying down the pen I wrote a preface, trying to express the spirit in which I was entering on the task of my new life." Both an emotional testimonial and a critical analysis, the preface "was the first (and remains the major) expression of [Conrad's] critical theories and his belief in his art." Smith presents a careful bibliography of the various forms of the preface, and he writes a perceptive 30-page commentary on the document's importance. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was a sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer, and teacher. He founded the Gehenna Press in 1942 while still a student at Yale (the name coming from a line in Milton's "Paradise Lost": "And black Gehenna call'd, the type of Hell"). The press has published more than 100 fine books and certainly must be considered one of the most successful private presses ever, given its longevity, its consistently high aesthetic achievement, and the unusual size of its output. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 1,000 COPIES (of a total edition of 1,100).
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$168.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, 42 leaves. Printed in Monotype Van Dijck on Fabriano. Woodcut portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin. Bound in French marbled paper over boards and paper label. In paper covered chemise and matching slipcase. Of 1100 copies, this is one of 1000. A fine uncut copy. Brook 49.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.