Almayer's Folly

T. Fisher Unwin, London, is the true first of Conrad's first book, released at the end of April 1895 (first reviewed in The Scotsman, 29 April 1895), and the census claim is confirmed. The first American — Macmillan and Co., New York, 1895, roughly 650 copies, published in the first week of May 1895 per Cagle — is a genuinely distinct edition: it was typeset from uncorrected proofs and its text varies considerably from the English. It is bound in very dark blue cloth with double blind rules framing each cover and 'Macmillan & Co' at the spine foot (Supino binding A). Both are collected, but the margin is days rather than months: Macmillan's copies were deposited at the Library of Congress on 15 April and one copy reached Wilson's lending library on 30 April, so catalogue the Unwin as the true first without overstating the gap.