CONRAD, Joseph (1857?1924). The Nigger of the Narcissus. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. 8vo. Original gilt-lettered navy blue cloth (rubbing to head and tail of spine, small hole at base of spine, toning and foxing to endpapers, vertical tear to front endpaper at hinge). Provenance: Ernest Dawson (bookplate). Later edition, INSCRIBED TO CONRAD COLLECTORS EDITH AND ERNEST DAWSON BY JOSEPH CONRAD?S WIFE, JESSIE CONRAD, who writes in part: ?This book was begun on our honeymoon and was one of the first books I typed.? This book was first printed in the United States under the title The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle after its original title was met with outrage in England; ironically, this title in turn also proved controversial, with one American reviewer writing that it ?insulted the public by imputing prudery to the American reader.?