Lord Jim
One of 108 copies on vergé from the réimposé printing (no. XXVIII), nominative copy for Monsieur Écot.
Serialized from October 1899 to November 1900 in Blackwood’s Magazine, it was published in one volume — in a revised version — at the end of that same year. The French translation appeared only more than twenty years later, when Gallimard finally undertook to publish nearly the whole of Conrad’s work, at the instigation of André Gide, who had already translated Typhoon in 1918. Lord Jim was the second volume; it was followed by Jeunesse – Cœur des ténèbres, Nostromo and Les Frères de la côte, at the rate of one volume every two years.
One of Conrad’s great novels, telling of a man’s shipwreck, and that of his vessel with its cargo of pilgrims, and of his subsequent wanderings from port to port, hiding his shame. He eventually washes up in Malaysia, at Patusan, where the arrival of the trader Brown gives him the chance to act as a hero.
An essential work, and one of the finest novels ever inspired by human brotherhood.
A very fine copy in wrappers, a rare condition.