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Maritime.- Conrad (Joseph) The Rover, first edition in book form, one of 377 copies signed by the author, with A.L.s. from Conrad to Sidney Colvin concerning translators loosely inserted, portrait by Muirhead Bone original pictorial boards, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, glacine wrapper, dust-jacket, spine slightly rubbed and faded, Garden City, N.Y., 1923 § Bone (David) The Brassbounder, signed and inscribed by the author to Joseph Conrad on front free endpaper, morocco-backed cloth, New York, 1921 § Conrad (Jessie) A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House, Preface by Joseph Conrad, new impression, signed by Alan Villiers and with his manuscript note "Book given to Alan Villiers late 1979. Came from one of the Conrad homes", original cloth, soiled, 1923 § Miazgowski (B.) Dar Pomorza, signed and inscribed to Alan Villiers by Cdr. Kosianowksi-Lorenz "...to the great sailor Alan Villiers, who deeply touched the Polish hearts by naming his own beautiful sailing ship 'Josef Conrad'..." on title, with T.L.s. from him and booklet in English loosely inserted, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, rubbed and frayed, Warsaw, 1959; and 2 others by Villiers, 8vo & 4to (6) ⁂ The first was first published in the Pictorial Review in New York; this limited edition was issued prior to the American trade edition and the first English edition. The letter from Conrad is undated but was presumably written during the First World War as he writes that the usual translators "are all serving now and the original distribution of work has been altered. The war has upset the arrangements and delayed the whole thing...".