Conrad, Joseph and Ford Madox Heuffer. Romance. A Novel.. Smith, Elder & Co, London,, 1903.

Price: US$76.97 + shipping

Description: 8vo size, 463pp plus publisher's list, original cloth covered boards with title and authors blocked gilt in gild rules on spine and on upper cover, a Mudie's Select Library label on upper cover (this appears to be the only library mark), slightly rubbed on extremities and one corner bruised, a few pages dusty, binding firm and text clean, overall very good

Seller: Crouch Rare Books, Godalming, United Kingdom

Conrad, Joseph. Romance. A Novel.. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1903.

Price: US$83.38 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: And Ford Madox Heuffer. A Very Good Copy, Neat Inscrition dated 1907 to half title page. Lacks ffep. Light Foxing. Rear hinge cracked but firm. Still a very acceptable copy.

Seller: Fountain Books (Steve Moody), Eastleigh, United Kingdom

Conrad, Joseph and Hueffer, Ford Madox. Romance: A Novel. Smith Elder and Co., London, 1903.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The first British edition of the second collaboration between these two authors. Published by Smith and Elder in 1903. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, lettered in white with white letterbox. A good copy with wear to edges and spinal extremities. The front paste down bears the Subscription Library plate of W. H. Smith and Sons. 463 pages, with 8 pages of advertisements to rear.

Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.

Joseph Conrad; Ford Madox Hueffer. Romance. Smith & Elder, E-134, E-349, 1903.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Smith, Elder and Company, London, UK. 1903. Viii, 463 pgs. First UK Edition/First Printing. Bound in blue decorated cloth boards with white titles present to the front board and gilt titles present to the spine. Boards has shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are rubbed and worn). Small price present to the reverse of the front board. Foxing present throughout. Text is clean and free of marks. Romance is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. In his biography of Conrad, Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (1924) , Ford alleges that some opponents and critics did not hold the same reverence for his "literary friendship" with Conrad as that which he maintained. But his bond with Conrad had been "for its lack of jealousy a very beautiful thing." Indeed, Ford took the position that he gave Conrad some benefit as a bonding partner, writing: "I was useful to Conrad as a writer and as a man in a great many subordinate ways during his early days of struggle and deep poverty." In an unpublished section, he withheld a frank passage of confession about his team writer where he contradicts the argument that Conrad "chose to live on terms of intimacy with a parasitic person", stating that such an accusation was as damaging to himself as it was to Conrad. Ford continued in the same vein about the choices open to Conrad, defending himself from criticism and showing awareness of the psychology behind co-writing: "if he chose to consult the person as to the most private details of his personal life and – what is still more important – as to the form and the very wording of his books, – if he chose for this intimacy a person of a parasitic type, he was less upright a man than might reasonably be supposed. And less of a psychologist." E-155; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 463 pages

Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.

Conrad (Joseph) and Ford Madox Hueffer.. Romance. A Novel.. Smith Elder, 1903.

Price: US$109.03 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, some foxing to prelims, recurrent at rear with the occasional spot between, pp. [viii], 463, [8, ads], crown 8vo, original blue cloth, the lettering and border in white to upper board and in gilt to backstrip, the latter faded, a little worn with some light soiling, a few spots to edges, ownership inscription in pencil to flyleaf, some cracking to hinges, fair. (Cagle A9a; Harvey A11a)

Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom

Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Hueffer. Romance a Novel. smith, elder, 1903.

Price: US$121.86 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Lacks dustwrapper, slight rubbing and wear to edges of boards with just a hint of fading to spine. Previous owners name to half title page and an inscription to title page relating to Ford, no other inscriptions. Clean internally with only some scattered light soiling. Heavy book which will require additional postage outside the UK.

Seller: Red-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. ), Hanley Swan, United Kingdom

Conrad, Joseph, and Ford Madox Hueffer. Romance. A Novel. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1903.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. [viii], 463, [ads, 8] pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. With note to Currie on bookseller's receipt "How is this for condition? Grove thinks it a fine copy." Cagle A9.a.(1), binding a; Ehrsam 2332; Keating 56; Smith 10; Wise, A Conrad library, p. 9; Wise, Bibliog. of Conrad, 14 Blue cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. Bookplates of John Stuart Grove & Barton Currie. Very Good [viii], 463, [ads, 8] pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Joseph Conrad / F.M. Hueffer. Romance. Smith Elder, London, 1903.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Conrad, J. & F.M. Hueffer Romance. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1903, original blue cloth, rubbed, spine faded, hinges weak

Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands

Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Hueffer. Romance. Smith Elder, London, 1903.

Price: US$1600.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A good copy, some slight foxing, blue cloth, with misprint "itno" page 34, Ralph Smith andHorace Hall bookplates. Digital photos available. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall please view photos before buying

Seller: ballinilara investments, brisbane, QLD, Australia

Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Hueffer. Romance. Smith Elder, London, 1903.

Price: US$1600.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A good copy, some slight foxing, blue cloth, with misprint "itno" page 34, Ralph Smith andHorace Hall bookplates. Digital photos available. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: ballinilara investments, brisbane, QLD, Australia