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Conrad, Joseph BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION OF EDITIONS OF ‘HEART OF DARKNESS’, ROMANCE AND NOSTROMO, 1899-1999, COMPRISING: 'Heart of Darkness' Three volumes comprising: i) 'The Heart of Darkness', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. CLXV, February 1899 pp.193-220, March 1899, pp.479-502 and April 1899, pp.634-57, modern blue morocco; ii) London: Everyman's Library, 1993, dust-jacket; iii) London: Penguin, [c.1999], reprint Romance Six volumes comprising: i) London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1903, first edition, the printer's copy (signed "Wm Clowes") on front free endpaper, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, contemporary blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, upper hinge splitting; ii) London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1903, first edition, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, collector's chemise and slipcase, inscription removed from front fixed endpaper, hinges splitting, extremities bumped; iii) London: George Bell 1903, colonial issue, red wove paper wrappers (Cagle's 'b' binding), joints splitting, some tears and loss to spine with minor restoration; iv) New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904, second impression, eight plates by Charles R. Macauley, largely unopened, dust-jacket, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, dust-jacket worn and soiled with some loss; v) New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904, third impression, eight plates by Charles R. Macauley, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, "SPECIAL EDITION" on spine, spine worn; vi) [London:] Thomas Nelson, [n.d.], frontispiece, some dampstaining Nostromo Five volumes comprising: i) London and Bombay: George Bell & Sons, 1904, first edition, colonial issue, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original red cloth (Cagle's 'a' binding), [Cagle A10a(2)], slightly skewed, library labels and other marks; ii) New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904, first American edition, crease to title-page; iii) New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904, first American edition, spine slightly rubbed; iv) New York: Harper & Brothers, [c.1913], reprint, head and foot of spine frayed; v) London: J.M. Dent, 1955, reprint, dust-jacket, dust-jacket price-clipped all 8vo, original bindings, occasional spotting and browning, occasional wear to bindings (14)