NMLP P-039530 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'

Joseph Conrad · William Heinemann (London) — but see precedence note: Dodd, Mead (New York) preceded it · 1898

For the Dodd, Mead: all copies without a date on the front of the title leaf are merely reprints — this is the decisive reprint tell. For the Heinemann: later impressions state 'New Impression 1898' on the copyright page. Conrad's later collected editions, and the separately issued 1914 'Preface' printing, are 'first thus' and not first editions of the novel.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-039530 for "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" by Joseph Conrad (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039530, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).