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CONRAD, Joseph (1857–1924). –– SCULLY, Sean, artist. Heart of Darkness. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1992. 4to. 8 etchings by Sean Scully. Original gilt-lettered full black crushed niger; original folding box with morocco spine label (sunning to spine). LIMITED EDITION, number 140 of 300 copies SIGNED BY SCULLY. Originally published in three parts by Blackwood’s Magazine from February-April 1899 to celebrate the magazine’s thousandth issue, Heart of Darkness was written based in part off of Conrad’s own experiences commanding a Belgian steamer on the Congo River after its captain became ill. Though the novella received little notice during Conrad’s lifetime, it began to receive a critical reappraisal after Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre adapted the story into a 1938 radio play which reimagined it as depicting the rise of a fascist dictator. In 1979 Francis Ford Coppola reinterpreted the story again, this time in a harrowing critique of the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now.