"THE HORROR! THE HORROR!"

CONRAD, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. (New York): Limited Editions Club, (1992). Quarto, original full black morocco; housed in original clamshell box. $3500.

Signed/limited first edition, number 40 of only 300 copies signed by artist Sean Scully on the limitation page, with four full-page and four half-page etchings by Scully.

Conrad's "account of a superman running an ivory business in the heart of the Congo… is a masterpiece of sinister deterioration" (Connolly, Modern Movement 14). "A vast body of critical commentary has mined the dense richness and consciously paradoxical quality of this seminal modernist work, with its modern version of a Dantean journey into the Inferno, its Faustian figure of Kurtz provoking ambivalently fascinated horror… The influence of Heart of Darkness can be traced in writers as diverse as T.S. Eliot, Andre Gide, H.G. Wells, Chinua Achebe, William Golding, Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul, and George Steiner, while Francis Coppola's film Apocalypse Now taps some of its rich imaginative possibilities by transposing it to the Vietnam War" (Stringer, 292). Scully's illustrations "have been pulled my Mohammed O. Khalil at his Brooklyn, New York studio. The paper, an all-cotton stock was specially made in Pescia, Italy, at Cartiere Enrico Magnani… The boards are covered with black Nigerian oasis goatskin" (LEC newsletter). With LEC newsletter laid in.

Fine condition.