CONRAD (JOSEPH) The Arrow of Gold, first English edition, THE DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE DAY OF PUBLICATION TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND RICHARD CURLE (Richard Curle his own copy from JC. 6.8.1919, on the half-title ), T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1919CONRAD (JOSEPH)The Arrow of Gold, first English edition, THE DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE DAY OF PUBLICATION TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND RICHARD CURLE ("Richard Curle his own copy from JC. 6.8.1919", on the half-title ), and with a 10-line note discussing the book's genesis on the dedication page, state with missing "A" in "ARROW" in running headline on p.67, light toning to free endpapers, publisher's dark green vertically ribbed cloth lettered in gilt (Cagle's a binding, in state (c) with white wove endpapers), top edge stained green, dust-jacket (small losses and tears to margins (one just touching the "J" of author's name on upper wrapper), preserved in cloth chemise and morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A38b(1), 8vo, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., [1919]THE DEDICATION COPY IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET, INSCRIBED TWICE BY CONRAD, including a lengthy note on the book itself: "The subject of this piece of writing has been in my my[sic] mind for many years. All the personages are authentic and the facts are as stated [printed dedication to Curle] The Ms. was finished in eleven months. Serial pub. in the London Mag.ne began in the Christmas number 1918. Joseph Conrad".Provenance: Richard Curle (1883-1968), close friend of Conrad from the time of their meeting in 1912. He wrote Joseph Conrad: A Study (1914), and was co-executor of Conrad's estate after the author's death; Sotheby's, The Joseph Conrad Collection From the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 10 July 2013, lot 126.