G. Jean-Aubry [Jean-Frederic-Emile Aubry] — Joseph Conrad Life and Letters

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this biographical work on Polish-British writer John Conrad, with his letters. Complete in two volumes. First edition. Volume one is illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and eleven plates. Volume two is illustrated with a frontispiece and five plates. Collated complete. The life of Joseph Conrad, a Polish-British novelist and story writer regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. With letters written by the author. Written and compiled by Georges Jean-Aubry, the pen-name of Jean-Frederic-Emile Aubry, a French music critic and translator who was a friend, translator and biographer of Joseph Conrad. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with minor age toning to the extremities. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .