Some Reminiscences
Price: $200.00
Hardcover. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. 1st Edition. Very Good.
First edition, first printing. One of 1000 copies. Publisher's navy cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt. Very good or better, with light toning to spine, light rubbing to spine ends and joints, corners lightly bumped and worn, subtle bump to right edge of front board, and light vertical mark to top right of front board. Overall, a handsome copy. Wise 20. In this memoir, Conrad gives a stream of consciousness account of his Polish upbringing, life at sea, his entrance into the navy, and the writing of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895). The work first appeared in Ford Madox Ford's English Review in 1909 and was subsequently published in book form in 1912 as Some Reminiscences in the UK and A Personal Record in the US. Item #JC104
