CONRAD (JOSEPH) Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO THE DEDICATEE'S SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW (Mr & Mrs Reynolds with cordial regards, from Joseph Conrad, 15 Oct. 1904) on the rear free endpaper, London and New York, Harper & Brothers, 1904CONRAD (JOSEPH)Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO THE DEDICATEE'S SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW ("Mr & Mrs Reynolds with cordial regards, from Joseph Conrad, 15 Oct. 1904") on the rear free endpaper, half-title, occasional light spotting (mostly to fore-edge of text block), publisher's blue cloth with wave design in white on upper cover and on gilt lettered spine, slightly bumped, hinges splitting, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A10a(1)], 8vo, London and New York, Harper & Brothers, 1904A fine presentation copy of Conrad's great epic novel, "an audaciously penetrating study of economic imperialism" (ODNB), inscribed to his friend Mabel Galsworthy, sister of the dedicatee John Galsworthy, and her husband Thomas Blair Reynolds, whom she had married in 1897.Provenance: Sotheby's, 28 October 2010, lot 29.