Books

True First. 451 pp. Green cloth boards with black decorated title to front cover and gilt title to spine. Cloth slightly loose on front panel. Light foxing to both front and rear. Inked ownership signature to fep and some pencil calculations to rep. Front hinges cracked. Spine faded. Boards worn. Endpapers and edges tanned. Corners and edges bumped and frayed with boards slightly exposed. Overall a reasonably tight and very collectable copy.

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad, originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. It explores the life of a young British seaman who gets involved in a scandal and is tormented by guilt and atonement. The novel is notable for its psychological depth and complex narrative structure.