Tales of Unrest

First English Edition, First Printing (published immediately after the American edition). Near fine, dark blue cloth just a little marked and bumped and some slight foxing, else a very nice, bright copy with spine gilt and top edge gilt. First English edition of Conrad's first collection of short stories, published in both America and England in 1898. The book marks the first stage of Conrad learning to write for popular magazines: "in that book I come nearer to the popular notion of tale-telling than in any previous work of mine." (writing to Unwin, Collected Letters, II., p.48). A great copy of this rare tome.