Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters.

JEAN-AUBRY, G. [Joseph Conrad].

Item Number: 130907

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1927.

Signed limited edition of Jean-Aubry’s intimate biography of famed author. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Conrad to each volume. One of one thousand numbered sets signed by Conrad on the limitation page, this is number 150. In very good condition.

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th-century realism. "His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, and Salman Rushdie" (John Stape, The Many Lives of Joseph Conrad).