Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Conrad, Joseph and Sean Scully. Heart of Darkness. The Limited Editions Club, 1992.
Price: US$2989.25 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by Sean Scully. Limited edition, this being number 68/300. Housed in black clamshell box in fine condition. Includes four full page and four half page etchings. Bound in full black goatskin. Book is in fine condition.
Seller: Holt Art Books, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. Hardcover. 121 pages. Number 18 from an edition of only 300 copies with type set in Fournier at the Golgonooza Letter Foundry by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari. The text was printed by Wild Carrot Letter Press on Lana Royal. An attractive edition of this classic short novel from Joseph Conrad. Includes four full page and four half-page etchings by Sean Scully. A fine copy in full black leather binding with gilt lettering and in a fine cloth clamshell box. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Sean Scully on the colophon page. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph; illus. by Sean Scully;. Heart of Darkness. Limited Editions Club, 1992.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book solidly fine with just a tiny touch of loss to gilt on top board lettering, probably resulting from imperfect application of the original gilt (i.e., not wear). Contents completely clean and fresh. Full black cloth matchng solander slipcase with a very small corner bump on the top right corner of the top board (ie. not visible on the shelf), does not affect contents, otherwise only minor shelf wear. Beautiful book.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. The Limited Editions Club, 1992.
Price: US$3800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Heart of Darkness With Etchings by Sean Scully. Conrad, Joseph New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1992 Signed Limited Edition; Signed and Numbered on the Rear Colophon. with four full-page and four half-page etchings by the artist, printed on all-cotton stock paper specially made in Pescia, Italy. Each plate protected with tissue paper laid in. Typographic design by Dan Carr using French typeface Fournier. Text size is fourteen point, with six-point interlinear spacing. Printed on Lana Royale stock in an off-white tint, made in France. Full-bound by hand in black Nigerian oasis goatskin, titled in gold on spine. Laid inside lined, clam-shell box covered in black canapetta linen, titled in gold on leather label on spine. no.154 of 300 copies signed by Scully. Sean Scully RA (born 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American-based artist working as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. His work is held in museum collections worldwide and he has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. Moving from London to New York in 1975, Scully helped lead the transition from Minimalism to Emotional abstraction in painting, abandoning the reduced vocabulary of Minimalism in favor of a return to metaphor and spirituality in art. Scully has also been a lecturer and professor at a number of universities and is highly regarded for his writing and teachings, collected in the 2016 book, Inner: The Collected Writings and Selected Interviews of Sean Scully. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many 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. Provenance Sale, London, Sotheby's, 2015, The Joseph Conrad Collection. Literature Elizabeth Phillips & Tony Zwicker, The American Livre de Peintre, 48 ("Scully, long a champion of abstract art as a democratic language capable of expressing pure feeling, here maps the African continent in a group of etchings, which, with their brooding intensity, run parallel to the unfolding of Conrad's sombre allegory").
Seller: E.C. Rare Books., Vancouver, BC, Canada
CONRAD, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. limited Editions Club, New York, 1992.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Four full page & four half-page etchings by Sean Scully. Large 4to, full black Nigerian goatskin with spine and front cover stamped in gold. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1992. Fine. Number 2 of 300 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Fine, in a felt-lined clamshell case covered in black Italian cotton with a leather spine label.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Large (10" x 12") quarto bound in full black Nigerian goatskin leather with the spine and front cover stamped in 22-karat gold in a clamshell box covered with black Italian cotton. Box lined in plush gray cloth. 121pp. Copy #87 of only 300 numbered copies illustrated with four full-page and four half-page etchings by Sean Scully and SIGNED by him on the colophon page. No LEC Newsletter. Full refund if not satisfied.
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: LIMITED EDITION #23 of 300. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Publisher's newsletter laid in. Features the unique etchings of Irish-American artist Sean Scully. Four full-page color etchings that bleed off the edges and four half-page etchings, printed on all-cotton stock paper specially made in Pescia, Italy. Each plate protected with tissue paper laid in. Typographic design by Dan Carr using French typeface Fournier. Text size is fourteen point, with six-point interlinear spacing. Printed on Lana Royale stock in an off-white tint, made in France. Full-bound by hand in black Nigerian oasis goatskin, titled in gold on spine. Laid inside lined, clam-shell box covered in black canapetta linen, titled in gold on leather label on spine. Book and box in FINE condition. Due to this book's size and/or weight, additional shipping may be needed. Full refund if not satisfied.
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness. Limited Editions Club, 1992.
Price: US$4150.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: In 1890, Joseph Conrad shipped out from Brussels to the Congo, to rescue a Monsieur Klein, ailing agent of a Belgian trading company dealing in ivory. In Heart of Darkness, it is Marlow who ships out from Brussels and sails up the Congo to rescue Mr. Kurtz. Kurtz had come with the noble aim of enlightening the natives. Instead, they envelope him in darkness. As Conrad startles the reader out of complacency, so does Sean Scully with his etchings. Born in Ireland, Scully is one of the world's most renowned artists. His works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Here we have Scully's eight etchings created expressly and exclusively for this edition. 4 full-page etchings and 4 half-page etchings by Sean Scully. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Each book signed by Sean Scully. Sean Scully's etchings are printed on stock from Cartiere Enrico Magnani, in Italy. The book is hand-bound in Nigerian goatskin. Its hinged and lined box is covered in black Italian cotton. One volume, 10 x 12 inches. Portfolios, an edition of twelve Exhibition sets, are available. As the publisher, we unconditionally guarantee that all books are authentic and the condition is As New (NOS).
Seller: The Limited Editions Club, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph (Sean SCULLY). HEART OF DARKNESS. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1992.
Price: US$4375.00 + shipping
Description: Large (10" x 12") quarto bound in full black goatskin leather with the spine and front cover stamped in 22-karat gold in a clamshell box covered with black Italian cotton. Copy #226 of only 300 numbered copies illustrated with four full-page and four half-page etchings by Sean Scully and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. The American Livre de Peintre 48. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in a Near Fine case with some sunning to the edges
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.