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Joseph Conrad. SOME REMINISCENCES (Second edition). Eveleigh Nash, London, 1912.
Price: US$44.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition, published in the same format as the first edition in 1912. Preceding the first American edition which was published later in 1912 as "A Personal Record". ***Please note that at some point over the last 110 years, the book has been subjected to damp conditions which has rippled the cloth over the boards, but the interior of the book is unaffected. ***Very good in navy-blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles to the spine and gilt titles and designs to the front board. The boards are quite clean but, as mentioned, the cloth has rippled especially over the spine, which also has a small stain. There is also a small scuff to the bottom edge of the back board. Head and tail of spine slightly creased and nicked. Top edge of page block darkened. The binding is still tight with no signs of loose pages or splitting at the hinges. Internally very good, with an attractive bookplate on the front pastedown. No inscriptions. Slight offsetting to the endpapers, but virtually none of the usual foxing. Interior pages clean. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. (Please see scans) *** 207mm x 142mm. 237 pages plus two pages of publisher's adverts at the back of the book. ***'"A Personal Record" is an autobiographical work (or "fragment of biography") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912. It has also been published under the titles "A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences" and "Some Reminiscences". Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life. It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence of his uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski, and the writing of "Almayer's Folly". It provides a glimpse of how Conrad wished to be seen by his British public, as well as being an atmospheric work of art. The "Familiar Preface" Conrad wrote for it includes the often quoted lines: "Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, among others, on the idea of Fidelity."' (Wiki) ***A second edition of "Some Reminiscences" by Joseph Conrad. A nice original reading copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Joseph Conrad. Some Reminiscences. Eveleigh Nash and Grayson, 1912.
Price: US$50.62 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1912. No Edition Remarks. 236 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition, published in the same format as the first edition in 1912. Preceding the first American edition which was published later in 1912 as "A Personal Record". ***Please note that a previous owner has pasted in some newspaper cuttings, but these create more interest rather than detract. ***Very good in navy-blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles to the spine and gilt titles and designs to the front board. The gilt is still nice and bright, especially on the front board. The boards are clean with just a few light marks and small patches of fading (mainly on the spine) commensurate with age and handling. Head and tail of spine just slightly creased but with no tears to the fragile cloth. Corners sharp. Edges of page block nice and clean. The binding is still tight with no signs of loose pages or breaking of the hinges - just some partial splitting to the paper between the front pastedown and free endpaper. Internally also very good, with a neat ownership name in fountain-pen ink at the top of the title page. None of the usual offsetting or foxing to the endpapers. Interior pages clean - there are some light text underlinings and marks in the margins but these are in pencil and light crayon, and could easily be erased if so wished. Also a list of relevant pages in pencil at the top of the rear free endpaper. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***As mentioned above, there are some newspaper cuttings pasted in - a full-page portrait of the author and a full-page cutting from 1918 to the preliminary pages; another full-page portrait of the young Conrad with his parents opposite the first text page; and another portrait of the author - "The greatest living artist in English prose" at the back of the book, (Please see scans) *** 207mm x 142mm. 237 pages plus two pages of publisher's adverts at the back of the book. ***'"A Personal Record" is an autobiographical work (or "fragment of biography") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912. It has also been published under the titles "A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences" and "Some Reminiscences". Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life. It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence of his uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski, and the writing of "Almayer's Folly". It provides a glimpse of how Conrad wished to be seen by his British public, as well as being an atmospheric work of art. The "Familiar Preface" Conrad wrote for it includes the often quoted lines: "Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, among others, on the idea of Fidelity."' (Wiki) ***A second edition of "Some Reminiscences" by Joseph Conrad. A nice original copy, with added interest in the form of some contemporary newspaper cuttings pasted in. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Conrad, Joseph. Some Reminiscences. Eveleigh Nash, London, 1912.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. pp 236, [1], + publisher's ads. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. A very good copy, with bumped corners, light foxing to endpapers.
Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Some Reminiscences. Eveleigh Nash, London, 1912.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first British edition, published by Eveleigh Nash ( London ) in 1912. Bound in publisher's blue cloth. From the Larchmont Yacht Club with their bookplate to paste down. ( no other ownership indicia. ) A very good copy with some wear to extremities and a scratch to base of spine. Offsetting to end sheets and a touch of spotting to preliminaries. A relatively small first printing.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. Some Reminiscences. Eveleigh Nash, London, 1912.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 237 p. (1), 2 p. of ads. Some foxing to the outer pages. S36
Seller: Lime Works: Books Art Music Ephemera Used and Rare, Toronto, ON, Canada
Conrad, Joseph. SOME REMINISCENCES. Eveleigh Nash, London, 1912.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Published in the U.S. later the same month as A PERSONAL RECORD. Conrad's autobiography "with a fictional slant." 8vo gilt-stamped blue cloth boards. Very good with front hinge just starting at first blank, flattened crease in front pastedown, covers lightly rubbed,and corners and spine ends a bit bumped.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. SOME REMINISCENCES. , 1912.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition of this autobiographical work, which initially appeared serially in Ford Madox Ford's newly-founded "English Review." What is remarkable about Conrad's reminiscences is how clearly he employed fictional techniques worked out with Ford, wherein the narrative intensity increases as the story develops. To achieve that, Conrad used a constantly interrupted narrative as a way of unsettling conventional sequences and, thereby, established anticipation of the next episode. Conrad needed a method that permitted intimacy, up to a certain point, and then withdrawal, when he had revealed enough. so his reminiscences would be matters of attack and retreat. [Karl] SOME REMINISCENCES is generally believed to have slightly preceded the American edition -- which, as with subsequent English editions, was titled A PERSONAL RECORD. Wise claimed that only 1,000 copies were printed (apparently including some bound by Bell as the colonial issue), but Nash records have not survived to substantiate this. This copy is in very good-plus condition (minor rubbing at the extremities, endpapers cracking, faint evidence of bookplate removal on the front paste-down). Cagle A15b.1.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Some Reminiscences. Eveleigh Nash, London, 1912.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. An attractive copy bound in the original publisher's cloth. The binding is tight with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy with the two ads present in the back of the book.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. SOME REMINISCENCES. , 1912.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition of this autobiographical work, which had initially (in 1908-1909) appeared serially in Ford Madox Ford's newly-founded English Review. Interestingly, Conrad's printed initials at the end of the Preface are "J.C.K." -- using his Polish last name of Korzeniowski. What is remarkable about Conrad's reminiscences is how clearly he employed fictional techniques worked out with Ford, wherein the narrative intensity increases as the story develops. To achieve that, Conrad used a constantly interrupted narrative as a way of unsettling conventional sequences and, thereby, established anticipation of the next episode. Conrad needed a method that permitted intimacy, up to a certain point, and then withdrawal, when he had revealed enough. so his reminiscences would be matters of attack and retreat. [Karl] Precedence between this UK edition (published in January 1912 but actual date unknown) and Harper's US edition (published on January 19th) is uncertain. Subsequent English editions adopted the American title of A PERSONAL RECORD. Wise claimed that only 1,000 copies were printed (apparently including some bound by Bell as the colonial issue), but Nash records have not survived to substantiate this. This is a near-fine copy (minor bumps at some corners, endpapers cracked, "IN" rubbed in spine title). Supino A15.1.0; Cagle A15b.1.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Some Reminiscences. Eveleigh Nash, London, 1912.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A spectacular copy. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's blue cloth. The gold lettering on the spine and panels are bright without fading. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a superb copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.