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ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS, AND FINE SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES
ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS, AND FINE SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES

A Collection of 6 'Uniform Edition' Joseph Conrad works, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1923-1926

LAN9524
Original price $133.00 - Original price $133.00
Original price
$133.00
$133.00 - $133.00
Current price $133.00

A very good set of 6 books by Joseph Conrad. They are from Dent's "The Uniform Edition - The Works of Joseph Conrad" series, comprising:

Almayer's Folly; A Story of an Eastern River, 1923. First edition thus. viii (including portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature) + 204pp; 

The Mirror of the Sea; Memories & Impressions; and A Personal Record; Some Reminiscences, 1923. First edition thus. xii + 194pp, & xxiii + 138pp; 

Chance; A Tale in Two Parts, 1923. First edition thus. x + 447pp; 

A Set of Six, 1923. First edition thus. xiii + 289pp; 

Notes on Life & Letters, 1924. First edition thus. x + 262pp; and; 

Lord Jim, 1926. Second impression of this first edition thus. ix + 417pp; 

Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London & Toronto & J.M Dent et Fils, Paris. Printed in Great Britain. First edition thus of this 'Uniform Edition'.

Red cloth hardbacks. Minor wear and bumping. Covers with gilt 'Sands of time' emblem to front and gilt titles to spine. The spines are sun faded. Soundly bound. First pastedown has printed armorial design. Offsetting to first and last free endpapers. Almayer's Folly with some light rippling in the cloth.

Text pages are very good indeed - bright and clean throughout. Some pages are still uncut at edges. Top edge of text block with dark tint (as issued).

Text in English.

Each volume approximately 220mm high x 147mm wide x c. 35-40mm deep.

Weight approximately 3.9kg (the set - unpacked).