CONRAD (JOSEPH) Victory. An Island Tale, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS FRIENDS JOHN AND ADA GALSWORTHY, INSCRIBED To dear Ada and Jack with love from J. Conrad. 1915 on the front free endpaper, Methuen & Co., 1915CONRAD (JOSEPH)Victory. An Island Tale, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS FRIENDS JOHN AND ADA GALSWORTHY, INSCRIBED "To dear Ada and Jack with love from J. Conrad. 1915" on the front free endpaper, half-title, 4pp. publisher's advertisements ("Methuen's Popular Novels") and 31pp. publisher's catalogue (dated "8/5/15") at end, publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, spine faded, slightly rubbed at extremities, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A19b(i)], 8vo, Methuen & Co., [1915]INSCRIBED BY CONRAD TO HIS GREAT FRIENDS JOHN AND ADA GALSWORTHY. A future Nobel Prize for Literature, Galsworthy first met Conrad aboard the sailing ship Torrens in Adelaide Harbour in 1893, immediately recognising in him "his deeply affectionate heart and his far-ranging, subtle mind" (Reminiscences of Conrad, 1924). A lifelong friendship ensued, to include Galsworthy's wife Ada, for whose translation of Maupassant's stories (1904) Conrad contributed the introduction.Provenance: John and Ada Galsworthy, gift inscription from the author; Sotheby's (Hodgson's), 26 April 1979, lot 119; Sotheby's, The Joseph Conrad Collection From the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 10 July 2013, lot 87.