CONRAD (JOSEPH) Under Western Eyes, FIRST EDITION, Methuen & Co., 1911CONRAD (JOSEPH)Under Western Eyes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated "September 1911" at end, 3 publisher's flyers (all mentioning "Western Eyes") loosely inserted, toning to endpapers, publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, DUST-JACKET with fraying to extremities of spine, small hole (touching rule border) at foot of lower joint, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A14a(1)], 8vo, Methuen & Co., 1911FINE COPY IN A DUST-JACKET of Conrad's great political novel in which the author "even dared to challenge (and arguably surpassed) Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment", and which is considered one of the sequence of novels which confirmed "his stature as one of the greatest fiction-writersand probably the greatest political novelistin English" (ODNB). Loosely inserted in this copy are three publisher's advertisement flyers, all mentioning this work, one noting that "critics have found in his [Conrad's] remarkable work kinship with Turgenov [sic]".Provenance: Paul Lemperly, bookplate; Estelle Doheny, gilt morocco book label; her sale, Christie's New York, 17 October 1988, lot 1206; Sotheby's, 28 October 2010, lot 30.