First edition of Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad offered by The Manhattan Rare Book Company

First edition of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim

"I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations." --Joseph Conrad

"The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad, major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life." --F.R. Leavis

CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim, A Tale. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. Octavo, original green cloth. $5000.

First edition of what is perhaps Conrad's finest novel. Cloth generally very clean and bright. Top corner slightly bumped. Clean internally with occasional light foxing. An excellent copy.