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Joseph Conrad. Typhoon and other stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair tight condition, ex library, label on pastedown, stamp on title page, rough cut pages, soiling, green boards also soiled/faded, corners bumped, damage to spine
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon and Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$82.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: dark gray cloth, gilt lettering, life preserver around title on front cover, two pages of ads at beginning, none at end. top edge trimmed, 'The Edition enjoys Copyright in all countries. ' on verso of title page, 304 pp, no dust jacket, first edition, front seam is loose but still intact, boards and endpapers are worn and lightly soiled Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Conrad, Joseph.. Typhoon and Other Stories.. London: William Heinemann., 1903.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Grey cloth with gilt lifebuoy design on cover. 8vo. 304pp. First edition, first issue with publisher's windmill device on title page, no "Reserved for the Colonies" notice on copyright page and with publisher's 32 page catalogue at rear. In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. A worn copy with some rubbing and corner wear to the covers and some spotting to the rear cover at the bottom. The spine is rubbed at the edges and has some chipping at the top. The text is good with some light soiling and wear and some light spotting to the half-title and title page. There is a bookplate at front with an ink number above it and some offset to the facing flyleaf.
Seller: Centerbridge Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon and Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1903. First UK edition. 2 pages of reviews of 'The Nigger of the Narcissus', [vi], 304pp. plus a 32 page publisher's catalogue. This is the first UK edition of Joseph Conrad's novel "Typhoon", and contains three additional short stories - Amy Foster, Falk: A Reminiscence, and To-morrow - which did not appear in the first American edition published in the previous year. The principal story, "Typhoon", is a classic sea yarn, possibly based upon Conrad's actual experience of seaman's life, and probably on a real incident aboard of the steamer John P. Best The book is bound in the original black cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and gold titling within an illustration of a life-belt on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear on the boards and bumping to the spine ends with a little damage to the cloth at the bottom of the spine and top rear spine corner. The bottom corners are lightly bumped and there is a slight dent on the fore edge of the front board. The contents are tight and clean with browning to the endpapers. A previous owner appears to have neatly replaced a missing front free endpaper with the free endpaper from the back of the book. This has some of the mull binding the book showing through down the spine gutter between the last page of advertisements and the rear fixed endpaper.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon and Other Stories.. London, William Heinemann, 1903 1903, 1903.
Price: US$136.24 + shipping
Description: First edition. (8), 304, (32) pp. Publisher's decorated black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, upper edge trimmed, other edges rough-trimmed. Spine slanted, boards rubbed, spine ends and corners heavily bumped. First free end paper with vertical crease and ca 3,5 cm tear at upper corner, endpapers slightly yellowed. Condition Good. First domestic, non-colonial UK edition with two pages of advertisements at the front and 32 pages at the back and Heinemanns logotype with the windmill on title leaf. Front board with gilt life buoy at upper left corner, rear board with Heinemann's embossed monogram.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon and Other Stories.. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: Good; Black cl. Binding. Rubbed corners, bubbling on front and back boards, small tears along spine, fep discolored from age, ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages
Seller: Gerry Mosher, Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon and Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 304 pp + ads. binding B. Height is 7-3/8" Cagle A8b1. rubbed at the extremities else a very good copy in original slate gray cloth with all edges trimmed. has the windmill on the title page. a presentable copy -- see scans. .[NB: both interior hinges are cracked and there is a tiny tear to the crown of the spine] First edition, first printing of the English edition.
Seller: stephens bookstore, scranton, PA, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon and Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 304 pp + ads. Binding A. Height is 7-5/8" Cagle A8b1. rubbed at the extremities else a very good copy in original slate gray cloth with top edge trimmed and other edges untrimmed. has the windmill on the title page. a presentable copy -- see scans. .[NB: both interior hinges are cracked] First edition, first printing of the English edition.
Seller: stephens bookstore, scranton, PA, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. Typhoon. Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, gray cloth; top edge trimmed, others uncut. London: Heinemann, 1903. First English Edition. First issue, with the windmill device on title, 1 leaf of ads at the front & 32p in the back. Preliminaries & end-papers foxed; armorial bookplate, pp. 3/4 with closed horizontal tear in the margin; spine bubbled.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. Typhoon. Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: a near fine copy of the 1st issue with the ad in front and the 32 pps of ads at the rear. Original grey gilt cloth. text is fine. tiny rubbing to edges, the novella Typhoon leads the volume wtih Falk the novella at the end, a famous Conrad novel of the sea. lovely copy
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
CONRAD, JOSEPH.. Typhoon and Other Stories. London: Heinemann, 1903, 1903.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition; first issue. Hinges weak; a very good copy. 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. Falk Amy Foster To-morrow Three Stories. McClure, Phillip & Co, New York, 1903.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 272, 10ads pp. 8vo. Because both book and serial rights to Typhoon had been sold to Putnam, the remaining three stories from the Heinemann edition were published in the US as this separate edition. Cagle A8c; Keating 46 Original blue cloth, gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, rear hinge cracked. Very good
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon And Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Gray cloth covered boards with gilt titles and illus., publishers blind stamp, ad leaf after front free end paper, windmill device on title page, reserved for colonies only absent, 304 numbered pages and 32 pages of ads. Spine head cloth edge corners rubbed through, 1/4" vertical tear to middle spine head cloth edge, moderate spine lean, top board corners bumped, front bottom right board corner rubbed through at tip, foxing, browning and soiling to page edges, heavy foxing to end papers and some interior pages, front and back hinge papers cracked and torn but threads holding firm. A worn but presentable book.
Seller: Footnote Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon and Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark gray cloth, lettered in gilt. Modestly rubbed corners and spine extremities, 1/4" closed tear to cloth at head of spine. Minor binding lean, text block edges typically tanned. Endpapers tanned with light dampstaining along edges, minor foxing to a few early and late leaves. 1st English edition (incorporating Conrad's final revisions, not found in the 1902 Putnam edition), apparent 2nd or mixed state, with publisher's blind-stamped device at bottom corner of back cover, all edges trimmed, 2 pp. reviews of "Nigger of the Narcissus" following front flyleaf and 32-pp. publisher's catalog at rear, lacking windmill on title page and with "[All rights reserved]" on verso. [vi],304,[32] pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$289.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First impression of the true first edition with all the correct issue points (as detailed below). Limited to 1,500 copies with the publisher's windmill device on the title page, and without "Reserved for Colonies" on the verso of the title page (which would indicate a later issue). The verso of title-page correctly reads: 'This edition enjoys Copyright in all Countries signatory to the Berne Treaty, and is not to be imported into the United States of America.' ***This first impression correctly has the two-pages of reviews to "The Nigger of Narcissus" to the fore, and the thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear, and has the publisher's blind-stamped device to bottom corner of rear board (as called for). This UK first edition includes Joseph Conrad's final revisions to "Typhoon," which do not appear in the American first edition of 1902 (The novella "Typhoon" was published previously in America in 1902 by Putnam), therefore this first impression of the first UK edition is also a first edition thus, incorporating Conrad's final revisions to Typhoon. ***This UK first impression of the first edition is the correct Cagle's binding "B" (only two or three copies of binding "A" are know to exist). This copy has the fore-edge and the bottom edge of the text-block rough-cut, with the top edge of the text-block trimmed (as called for). Also it has the correct spacing of 10 mm as measured between "Conrad" and "Heinemann" on the spine of the boards as mentioned in Cagle A8b(1). ***Very good in dark slate-grey cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine and gilt titles in a life-buoy design entitled S.S. Nan-Shan to the front board. Fore-edge and bottom edge of text-block rough-cut (as called for). ***Please note that there is a red ink mark running along the front edge of the spine of the boards, and to the bottom of the front pastedown, and at the very bottom of the first few pages. ***Contemporaneous owner's name and date in black fountain pen ink to front free endpaper: 'de Blaquiere III, 1903'. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Bottom corner of rear board slightly creased. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed and creased. Offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. No foxing to pages. Pages clean. Slight reading lean to the binding but spine tight. ***196mm x 138mm. viii prelim pages including the two-page adverts for the Nigger of Narcissus and the half-title page, plus 304 text-pages and 32-pages of publisher's adverts to rear. The fore-edge of three of the catalogue pages to the rear are uncut (can be carefully cut open). ***The short stories are all nautical, based on Conrad's experience in the merchant navy. Typhoon is the story of a ship captain who struggles against nature. Joseph Conrad, who was an exile from Poland writes about the themes of migration and isolation, particularly in "Amy Foster" and "To-morrow." "Amy Foster" tells the story of an emigrated Polish woman coming to terms with living in England. "To-morrow" tells of the coming home of an elderly sailor's long-lost son. "Falk" is a story about a tug-boat master. His dark secret stops him from courting the woman with whom he is in love. ***The story "Typhoon" was originally published in a separate edition in the United States in 1902, but there was no English equivalent until 1912, making this its first appearance in book-form in England. ***First impression of the UK first edition, in very good condition, in its original cloth-covered boards. This first impression of the first edition of "Typhoon and Other Stories" is the true first publication in book-form of all the stories. Uncommon. ***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. Typhoon. Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: a near fine copy in the original grey gilt and pictorial boards of one of Conrad's most famous books.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. Typhoon and Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English edition and first expanded edition, under this title, containing material not in the American edition, including the first appearance of *Falk*. The American edition was published, in 1902, under the title *Typhoon*. Octavo. 309pp. Slate-gray cloth stamped in gold. Endpapers are moderately foxed, spine is slightly cocked, with light wear at extremities, else a near very good copy. *Cagle* A8b(1), binding A; *Wise* 11: 1500 copies printed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. TYPHOON AND OTHER STORIES. Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First UK edition. Publisher's windmill device on title page, without "Reserved for the Colonies only" on verso of title page, and with publisher's monogram on rear cover. One of only 1500 copies. The first publication in book form of all the stories except the title novella "Typhoon," which was previously published in the U.S. by Putnam in 1902. This UK edition adds three stories not in the U.S. edition ("Amy Foster," "Falk," and "To-Morrow") and incorporates Conrad's final revisions to "Typhoon," which were not in the U.S. edition. There is no comparable U.S. edition. Cagle's binding "B" (there are only 2 or 3 known copies of binding "A," which is a presumed trial binding) with only the top edge trimmed and with 110 mm between "Conrad" and "Heinemann" on spine [Cagle A8b(1)]. Original, slate-gray cloth with title, author, publisher, and life-preserver stamped in gilt; 32 pages of ads at end (as in some copies, but not all). Light foxing on endpapers only, minor wear on corners and spine ends, bubbling to cloth at spine and along rear cover edges, otherwise very good with gilt quite bright. NO COMPARABLE U.S. EDITION
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. Typhoon and Other Stories. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1903.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: First issue, with windmill device to t.p. and without "Reserved for the Colonies only" on verso of half-title. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine, edges untrimmed; plain endpapers; [viii],304,[32]pp; leaf of ads at front, list of titles to half-title verso, and 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear. A straight, unfaded copy, lightly rubbed, cloth over boards bubbling mildly, hinges cracked, gutter repair and stain to title page: Good. Short stories, published at the height of Conrad's career. EHRSAM 2299a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph.. Typhoon.. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 304 pp. plus pub. cat. 8vo, publisher's cloth stamped in gold. First English edition, first issue; one of 1500 copies. Bookplates to front pastedown; very slight offsetting to front free endpaper; else a fresh bright copy with a trace of rubbing to rear joint.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph. Typhoon and Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 304 pages with 2 pages of preliminary ads as well as 32 pages in the rear. First issue of this collection of stories from the author of "Lord Jim" and "Heart of Darkness." A near fine copy in blue cloth boards with gilt life preserver to the front panel with some minor wear to the extremities and in a quarter leather slipcase with cloth chemise. No dust jacket. A very well preserved copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. TYPHOON and Other Stories. , 1903.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1903. 2 pp preliminary ads + 32 pp terminal ads, undated. Original dark grey cloth with front-cover life preserver in gilt. First Edition, first (i.e. non-Colonial) issue, limited to 1,500 copies. In addition to the title tale, the "other stories" are "Amy Foster," "Falk" and "To-morrow" ("Falk" is the tale that centers upon Conrad's often-recurring theme of cannibalism). "Typhoon" had been published in New York in 1902, prior to Conrad's final revisions that are reflected in the text of this English edition; the other three appear in book form for the first time here. This is a "pure" domestic copy, with the domestic half-title and title leaves; demand from British booksellers was so great that the binder subsequently had to create "hybrid" copies, transferring colonial copies to the domestic market and back again. It is in Cagle's binding "a" -- with 110mm between "Conrad" and "Heinemann" on the spine, and with the pages trimmed at the top edge only. This copy does include the 32-page ad catalogue that is present in some but not all copies. It is in close-to-fine condition (very slight cracking of the front endpaper). Cagle A8b(1).
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$472.50 + shipping
Description: NY, McClure, Phillips and Company, 1903, first edition, first printing. Original blind-stamped blue cloth with anchor design, title, author, and publisher in gilt, Falk, Amy Foster, and To-Morrow are the three "other stories" that appeared in Typhoon and Other Stories as published by Heinemann in London in 1903, this is the first separate printing of these three stories in book form, with 10 pages of undated ads at the end, Cagle A8c, Keating 46. Just light wear, very nearly fine.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
CONRAD, Joseph.. Typhoon and other stories.. Heinemann, London., 1903.
Price: US$483.10 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue. Octavo. 304 pages. 2-page advert at the beginning and a 32-page catalogue at the rear. Original slate-grey cloth. The other stories are "Amy Foster", "Falk: A Reminiscence" and "To-Morrow".Contemporary (1904) ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Cover edges superficially rubbed. Lower corner of upper cover bruised. Endpapers lightly spotted as usual. Very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
CONRAD, Joseph. TYPHOON and Other Stories. Heinemann, 1903.
Price: US$495.98 + shipping
Description: First edition, variant issue. Issued without half title and with a catalogue of advertisements. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt, with a gilt vignette to the upper cover. A very good copy indeed, with slight wear to the spine ends but gilt still bright. The short story "Typhoon" was originally serialised in Pall Mall Magazine between January and March 1902 and first published in book form in America by G.P. Putnam's Sons in September 1902. This UK edition is the first edition of these collected stories and is the first edition in book form of all the stories except "Typhoon" and in addition is the first appearance in print of "Falk". Curle 48.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Conrad, Joseph. TYPHOON and Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. First Issue, (2)pp. ads, 304pp., 32pp. ads at rear. With the windmill device on title page; bound in dark gray cloth pictorially stamped in gilt depicting a lifesaver; spine lettering gilt; internally clean and bright with two small spots of bubbling to cloth.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition, with the 32 pp. of publisher's ads at the end. 304pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Smith 9; Cagle A8b (1); Keating 42; Wise 13 First English Edition, with the 32 pp. of publisher's ads at the end.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon And Other Stories. William Heinemann 1903, London, 1903.
Price: US$515.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 304, (32) pp. Publisher's original grey cloth with gilt decoration and title to front cover & gilt lettering to spine. A few tiny spots to lower spine. Cloth fresh with minimal wear. Protected in a clear acetate wrapper. Two-page press opinions before half title. 32-page publisher's adverts at rear. Publisher's windmill device to title page with lettering not in caps. Top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed. Neat ink name to ffep. Endpapers darkened. Internally clean. A VG or better copy. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
CONRAD, Joseph. TYPHOON AND OTHER STORIES. , 1903.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: CONRAD, Joseph. TYPHOON AND OTHER STORIES. London: William Heinemann, 1903. First edition, first issue. 2 pp. publisher's ads + 304 pp. 8vo., black cloth stamped in gilt. Corners bumped, moderate shelfwear. Spine slightly rolled. Personal armorial bookplate to front pastedown, ink ownership to front flyleaf. Minor occasional foxing. Rear joint slightly tender. Good overall.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. Typhoon and Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$631.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition, first printing, of this Joseph Conrad novella, this volume with three other popular short stories. The first edition first printing of this work, limited to one-thousand five-hundred copies, with the publisher's windmill to the title page, and without 'reserved for colonies' to the reverse of the title.A collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad, containing the novella 'Typhoon', and the short stories 'Falk, 'Amy Foster', and 'To-morrow'.'Typhoon' is a classic sea tale.Conrad was a noted Polish-British writer, known as one of the greatest novels written in the English language.Two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.Bound without the publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the spine and extremities. Light spots to the fore edge. Faint stamp to the front paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with some odd spots. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
CONRAD (Joseph). Typhoon and Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$637.69 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. 8vo. Bound c.2000 by Bayntun-Riviere in full dark blue morocco, the covers with a gilt fillet border, the spine lettered and dated in gilt with one line panels and tooled bands, hand-marbled endleaves, gilt edges. Original cloth cover bound in at the end. (Lacks half title).
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon And Other Stories.. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First English edition, first printing of this collection of stories, including the thrilling titular novella, âgenerally thought to inaugurate Conradâs period of artistic maturity.â Octavo, original Cagle's binding A with only the top edge trimmed and with 110 mm between "Conrad" and "Heinemann" on the spine, with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. One of only 1500 of the 3000 copies issued in the first printing with the windmill device on the title page and without "Reserved for the Colonies only" on theÂverso of the half title, and including the 32 pages of advertisements at rear which appear only in some copies. After the New York publication, Conrad made final revisions to "Typhoon" before the present English publication which also includes three other stories, "Amy Foster", "Falk", and "To-Morrow". (Cagle, A8b; Smith, 9; Wise, 13). In fine condition. A superior example. Typhoon is most likely based upon Conrad's actual experience of seaman's life, and probably on a real incident aboard of the steamer John P. Best. The tale describes the exploits of Captain MacWhirr as he sails the s/s Nan-Shan, a British-built steamer running under the Siamese flag, into a typhoon in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. Other characters include the young Jukes (most probably an alter ego of Conrad from the time he had sailed under captain John McWhirr and Solomon Rout, the chief engineer). The novella classically evokes the seafaring life at the turn of the century. While Macwhirr, who, according to Conrad, "never walked on this Earth", is emotionally estranged from his family and crew, and though he refuses to consider an alternate course to skirt the typhoon, his indomitable will in the face of a superior natural force elicits grudging admiration. "This richly and consistently ironic tale is generally thought to inaugurate Conrad's period of artistic maturity" (Kermode, 9).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon, and Other Stories. London: William Heinemann, 1903.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. One of 1,500 copies. Publisher's dark gray cloth, with an illustration of a lifebuoy surrounding the title lettering to the front board in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Very good plus, with some light wear and rubbing to the extremities, light rippling to the panels, lacking the terminal publisher's catalog, spine lightly cracked inside the rear cover, otherwise sturdy and intact binding, former owners' inscriptions to the front endpapers, minor toning to the free endpapers, otherwise bright and clean interior. Overall, a pleasing and attractive copy. Wise 13. Typhoon is a collection of four short stories: "Typhoon," "Amy Foster," "Falk: A Reminiscence," and "To-Morrow." Each of the stories has a nautical setting and draws inspiration from Conrad's tenure in various merchant navies; "Typhoon," tells the story of a ship captain's struggle against the powers of nature. Additionally, Conrad's experience of exile from Poland manifests itself in the themes of isolation and migration found throughout the text, especially in "Amy Foster" and "To-Morrow." "Amy Foster" tells the story of an emigrated Pole adjusting to her new life in England, and "To-morrow" tells of the homecoming of an aging sailor's long-lost son. Similarly, "Falk" is about a tug-boat master whose dark secret prevents him from properly courting the woman with whom he is in love. Interestingly, the eponymous story "Typhoon" was originally published in a separate edition in the United States in 1902, but there was no English equivalent until 1912, making this its first appearance in book-form in England.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Conrad, Joseph.. Typhoon And Other Stories.. London, William Heinemann, 1903, 1903.
Price: US$682.50 + shipping
Description: London, William Heinemann, 1903, first edition, first printing. Limited to 1,500 copies with the publisher's windmill on the title page and without the words "Reserved for Colonies" on the verso of the title page, it followed the American edition of 1902, but it adds three other stories, Amy Foster, Falk, and To-Morrow, Conrad's final revisions were not included in the American edition, but they are included here, these additional stories appear for the first time, the book was not intended for distribution to the United States, original charcoal slate cloth with title, author, publisher, and life preserver illustration in gilt, includes 32 pages of ads at the end which appears in some copies, but not all, Cagle's binding A with only the top edge trimmed and with 110 mm between "Conrad" and "Heinemann" on the spine, Cagle A8b(1), Smith 9, Keating 42. Very good.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. Typhoon. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A very good copy, in original black,lettering on backstrap and device on front cover,in gilt, edges rough trimmed, bookplates Horace Hall and Ralph Smith, 2pp publishers advertisements with peliminary leaves, 32pp at back. Purchased at auction 1973. Digital photos available.jplease view photos before buying
Seller: ballinilara investments, brisbane, QLD, Australia
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with advertisement leaf at the beginning and 32 pages at rear. A beautiful copy SIGNED by Joseph Conrad on a laid in signature. This First Issue book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's blue/grey cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning. The boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author with a custom acetate dustjacket to protect the book. We buy Joseph Conrad First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Joseph Conrad. Typhoon. William Heinemann, London, 1903.
Price: US$3900.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A very good copy, in original black,lettering on backstrap and device on front cover,in gilt, edges rough trimmed, bookplates Horace Hall and Ralph Smith, 2pp publishers advertisements with peliminary leaves, 32pp at back. Purchased at auction 1973. Digital photos available.j
Seller: ballinilara investments, brisbane, QLD, Australia
CONRAD, Joseph.. Typhoon And Other Stories.. London: William Heinemann, 1903, 1903.
Price: US$83737.09 + shipping
Description: First British edition, first impression, an extraordinary survival, the only known copy of this title complete with its original dust jacket and the earliest known jacket on any British edition of Conrad, the earliest hitherto recorded being Under Western Eyes (1911). Neither Wise nor Cagle record a jacket and no jacketed copy can be traced in commerce or auction records. One of the leading authorities on evolution of the printed dust jacket is Thomas Tanselle. In Tanselle's account, the modern style of printed paper dust jackets with flaps was firmly established as the predominant style of book covering from at least the 1860s. Paper dust jackets with flaps were useful because they allowed a customer to open a book in a bookshop without putting fingers on the decorative cloth binding beneath it. Early examples only rarely survive, however, because they were customarily discarded at the point of purchase. Some early jackets were plain paper, but publishers quickly filled up the space on the jacket panels with advertising. A few publishers experimented with jackets with a front panel design echoing that of the binding, but most jackets had typographic designs until the last quarter of the 19th century. As the present example shows, the fully typographic style persisted into the early years of the 20th. Tanselle notes that "Holes were frequently placed in the spines of jackets for series books, allowing the same jacket to be used for all volumes, since the titles of the individual volumes showed through the holes" (p. 77, n. 101). This was a cost-saving device and shows that the design of the jacket had not yet been conceived purely as a marketing tool for the individual book it protected. Tanselle gives a census of extant jackets on books published pre-1901, including another book published by Heinemann in 1897, Edmond About, The King of the Mountains, trans. Richard Davey (Tanselle census no. 97.53), which has the same style jacket, with a hole cut in the spine to allow the title and author's name to show through. William Heinemann Ltd was founded in 1890. The company published several works in series, including translations into English under the branding of "Heinemann's International Library", edited by Edmund Gosse. They also published the British version of Scribners' Great Education Series under the title Heinemann's Great Education Series. No doubt their familiarity with publishing series books in that era influenced their choice of jacket design. The company's relationship with Conrad began in the late 1890s, when Heinemann and the American publisher Frank Doubleday financially supported Conrad during his initial attempt at writing what eventually became The Rescue, and Heinemann was the British publisher for Conrad's The N***** of the 'Narcissus' in 1897. No dust jacket for the latter title is known to survive. These generic jackets, which were designed to be used for any title in the series, could theoretically be transferred from any other book in that series. Close examination of the various minute traces on both book and jacket demonstrates that this jacket has always been with this copy of the book. It would be difficult, in any case, to find another surviving jacket from the series, given the notable rarity of all British dust jackets before the Great War. One of the other titles from this series, Israel Zangwill's The Grey Wig, appears in auction records as early as 1904, yet no copy of that title down the years is noted as retaining the jacket. Similarly, Somerset Maugham's Mrs Craddock has a lengthy auction record, but no copy recorded in jacket. In a Parke-Bernet sale of January 1960, a job lot of Maugham first editions consisted of 13 works, all with dust jackets except for the earliest, Mrs Craddock. Likewise, the superb Somerset Maugham collection of Loren & Frances Rothschild did not have a copy of that book in jacket. Cagle A8b(1); Wise A13. G. Thomas Tanselle, Book-Jackets: Their History, Forms, and Use, 2011. Octavo. Original slate grey cloth, device to front board gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge cut, others untrimmed. With original printed dust jacket, die-cut towards head of spine as issued to reveal spine lettering. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box. With 32-page publisher's advertisements at end. Paper repair at head of jacket spine with small portion of paper supplied, light marking where old tape removed, still a remarkable survival, the book in fine condition.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom