Conrad, Joseph

8vo, first English edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his dear friends John and Ada Galsworthy ("To | dear Ada and Jack | with love from | J. Conrad | 1915.") on front free endpaper, 4pp. publisher's advertisements ("Methuen's Popular Novels") and 31pp. publisher's catalogue dated 8/5/15 at end, original red linen finish cloth lettered in gilt on spine, minor spotting and browning, occasional small chips, binding very slightly skewed, spine faded, head and foot of spine bumped

John and Ada Galsworthy, authorial inscription; Sotheby's (Hodgson's Rooms), 26 April 1979, lot 119

Cagle A19b(1)

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For a note on John and Ada Galsworthy, see lot 9. First published within an American periodical, Munsey's Magazine, in February 1915, the first book form of Victory novel was published in America by Doubleday, Page and Co., in March 1915. English publication followed in May. However, huge demand for export copies created a shortage of domestic copies and attempts to redress the balance caused a series of pre-publication printings and reprintings. In this copy the half-title leaf and title-page leaf are conjugate.