"AMONG THE VERY GREAT NOVELISTS IN THE LANGUAGE”

CONRAD, Joseph. Works. Garden City and New York, 1925. Twenty-six volumes. Small octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt, uncut. $5500.

Handsome set of the works of Joseph Conrad.

Conrad did not publish his first novel until the age of 38, but his work earned him a place with the great modernists of the 20th-century, "among the very great novelists in the language" (Drabble, 225). "Conrad's work at its best achieved a synthesis of theme, treatment, and language of a kind without precedent in English literature… Novelty of theme and the piquancy of a non-English origin established him as a romantic, almost as a legendary figure. His stories had excitement of a new kind, and his style, by its very queerness, could allure… powerfully… achieving a perfect equilibrium of pictorial and narrative style" (DNB).

Slight rubbing to corners of some volumes, one headcap expertly repaired. An about-fine set, handsomely bound.