Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

$4,200 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea... FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH of Conrad's masterpiece; one of only 2100 copies printed. There can be little doubt that Conrad's fame as a novelist rests chiefly upon Lord Jim. And perhaps the main reason for this is that it raises a fierce moral issue in a very definite form and carries it through on a high level of creative intensity Richard

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