1940 "First Edition" stated on copyright page; Translated from the French and Edited by John A. Gee and Paul J. Sturm; Yale University Press; very good condition of pages with a few very light pencil marks; original owners name inside front (light pencil) - see pic; blue cloth boards very good with gilt lettering along spine; dust jacket quite good with minor wear along edges.
 
from dust jacket -
These letters of Joseph Conrad cover some of the most important years of his life.  When the early ones were written, Conrad was writing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, beset with self-questioning, ill a good deal of the time, a sailor out of a job for months on end, pouring out his remarkable inner world to his "dearly beloved Margurite."  His comments on his own work as well as on that of Mme...They [letters] are filled with shrewd observations, self-analysis, and family gossip....