CONRAD (Joseph). Jeunesse, followed by Cœur des ténèbres. Paris, NRF, 1925. Small in-4, paperback. First edition of the French translation, by G. Jean-Aubry and André Ruyters. One of 109 first copies reprinted on laid paper. The stories Youth and Heart of Darkness appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899 before being collected together in Youth: A Narrative, and Two Other Stories in 1902. Heart of Darkness inspired Francis Ford Coppola to write Apocalypse Now.