1908 A Set of Six

Description

Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

A presentation copy, stamped to the title page imprint. 

First edition, third issue, with a forty-page catalogue of publisher's advertisements to the rear dated June 1908. 

In the publisher's navy cloth binding. 

Comprising six short stories, all of which previously appeared in journals between 1906 and 1908: 'Gaspar Ruiz'; 'The Brute'; 'An Anarchist'; 'The Informer'; 'Il Conde'; 'The Duel'. 

From Polish-British novelist and short story writer Joseph Conrad. Regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language, Conrad based many of his stories in nautical settings or crises of human individuality, and his narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors.