Nostromo
One of 109 copies from the deluxe issue, réimposé on vergé Lafuma-Navarre paper, this copy no. XXVIII, nominative copy for Monsieur Écot.
Published in 1904, Nostromo is arguably Joseph Conrad’s most powerful, dense and somber novel. It was the culmination of an extraordinary undertaking that cost the novelist more than two years of effort: the invention of an imaginary Latin American republic — Costaguana — complete with its own history, geography, institutions, customs, economic system, social classes, and a tangle of tensions and conflicts plunging the country into revolution.
It ranks 47th on the Modern Library’s 1998 list of the hundred best English-language novels of the twentieth century, a distinction echoed by Jorge Luis Borges: “If I had to choose a single novelist, I would choose Joseph Conrad. There is something epic about Conrad; one thinks of him as a man who has been everywhere, one thinks of him as one thinks of the ocean.”
A fine copy in wrappers, a rare condition for these two volumes.