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37 CONRAD, Joseph. Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories. [Heart of Darkness, and The End of the Tether.] Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902 FIRST APPEARANCE IN BOOK FORM OF HEART OF DARKNESS First edition, first issue, with the earlier 32-page catalogue at the rear dated 10/02, preceding that dated 11/02. The volume marks the first book form publication of three novellas by Conrad, including most importantly Heart of Darkness , now his best-known work, and certainly his most enduring and influential. “A depressing African journey into the Congo Free State in 1890, when he travelled overland and in a paddle-steamer, would be recollected and powerfully transformed in his masterpiece . . . ‘Heart of Darkness’, which offered a forewarning of the Hitlerian demagogue, seems virtually inexhaustible in its recessive ambiguities and paradoxes” ( ODNB ). The story continues to attract fierce debate and criticism. The three novellas were originally serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1898, 1899, and 1902 respectively. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered and decorated in black. With 32 pp. catalogue at rear dated 10/02. Contemporary gift inscription to title page. Light sunning to spine, minor rubbing and nicking round joints and extremities, slight crease to initial ten or
39 CUMMINGS, E. E. 95 Poems. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, [1958] “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)” First edition, signed limited issue, number 166 of 300 copies signed by the author, 280 of which were released for sale, this copy particularly fresh under the seldom-surviving glassine. The signed limited issue precedes the trade issue of the same year. The issue is notably uncommon and much coveted, not least because it contains many of Cummings’s best loved poems such as “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in” and “maggie and milly and molly and may”. 95 Poems , “a serene volume of verse, extolled the wonders of the natural world, honoured a number of very ordinary individuals, recorded Cummings’s outrage at the disastrous outcome of the Hungarian revolution, reflected memories of childhood, and meditated on birth, time, and death. It was a fitting close to the poet’s career” ( ANB ). Tall octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, title blocked in blind to covers, yellow endpapers, top edge yellow. With original glassine. Housed in publisher’s black paper-covered slipcase. A near-fine copy, book and slipcase smart and fresh, with the glassine torn along bottom edge but still very presentable. £4,000 [155342]
so leaves, some toning and foxing to contents. A very good copy. ¶ Cagle A7a; Wise 10. £2,500 [154390] 38 CUMMINGS, E. E. Eimi. New York: Covici, Friede, 1933 A PROTEST AGAINST STALIN’S OPPRESSION OF THE INDIVIDUAL First edition, signed limited issue, number 756 of 1,381 copies signed by the author, with an unsually smart example of the scarce dust jacket. Eimi was a travelogue, in Cummings’s signature abstract prose, of his visit to the Soviet Union in 1931. As explained on the limitation page, the unusual limitation was apparently simply a reflection of the number of orders received by 15 February 1933. Large octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom tan morocco-backed folding case. Cloth very fresh, some minor spotting to endpapers but sound and clean within, an excellent copy, with the jacket unusually well preserved, a few closed tears to edges and some general light foxing. £2,000 [154445]
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