UNDER WESTERN EYES

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine. No dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips. The cloth with a few light marks is faded to the spine. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Publisher's 32 page catalogue dated September 1911 at the rear.

One of Conrad's major novels, 'Under Western Eyes' explores democracy and revolution in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, and is often seen as a response to Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'. The first printing was published in an edition of 3000 copies.