CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Rescue, London, 1920, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket (frayed). FIRST ENGLISH PUBLISHED EDITION. With The Mirror and the Sea (London, 1906, cloth, FIRST EDITION) and 2 photographs of Conrad in an album. (3)

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Rescue, London, 1920, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket (frayed). FIRST ENGLISH PUBLISHED EDITION. With The Mirror and the Sea (London, 1906, cloth, FIRST EDITION) and 2 photographs of Conrad in an album. (3)

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CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924).  The Rescue. A Romance of the Shallows. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1920. 8vo (195 x 130mm). Half title, woodcut printer's device on the title. Original green cloth, the upper cover with the Aldine device stamped in blind, the spine lettered in blind, dust-jacket (the upper wrapper of the jacket frayed at upper edge with slight loss, corners frayed, the backstrip darkened, lightly browned, some creasing to upper wrapper). FIRST ENGLISH PUBLISHED EDITION. Cagle A49b; Keating 133; Wise 57: "For this edition of The Rescue the novel received its final corrections." According to Wise, this edition was preceded by the first American edition, issued in New York on May 21, 1920 (Wise 55) and a "privately printed" edition, issued in London in June 1920 (Wise 56: "Of this edition of The Rescue forty copies only were printed, and were distributed privately"). These were followed by the present edition. Of the development of the novel generally, Wise writes, "The Rescue was planned and commenced so long ago as 1896, when, under the tentative title of The Rescuer, a considerable portion of the novel (about two-thirds of the whole) was written and partly set up in type. Mr. Conrad has stated that by successive diminutions and corrections these two-thirds were reduced to a very little more than half when at last the book was ready for publication. By such conscientious and continued labour does the work of Joseph Conrad attain its final wonder." With the same author's The Mirror of the Sea. Memories and Impressions (London, 1906, 8vo, original green cloth, FIRST EDITION of this collection of autobiographical essays) and an album containing two mounted portraits (only) of Joseph Conrad, photographed by T. and R. Annan & Sons. Provenance: The Property of a Collector. (3)