CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Arrow of Gold, London, 1919, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket (stained, dust-jacket in fragments). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "From J. C. with love to Lilian."

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924).  The Arrow of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes. London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1919. 8vo (197 x 130mm). Half title (some light staining, more pronounced to first few leaves including the title, occasional light mainly marginal spotting). Original green cloth lettered in gilt, dust-jacket (some staining to the cloth, inner hinges broken, shaken, the dust-jacket in several fragments, torn and frayed with some loss, partly browned). Provenance: The Property of a Collector. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, first issue, with the "A" missing from the running title on p.67. IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "From J. C. with love to Lilian." [Please see the note relating to Lilian Hallowes in lot 542.]  Cagle A38b; Ehrsam p.260; Keating 193; Smith 22; Wise 41: "[from Wise 40:] The novel first appeared serially in Lloyd's Magazine from December 1918 to February 1920 inclusive, with illustrations by Herbert Pizer. The two Notes did not accompany the novel in its serial form ... [Wise 41:] Although not ranking as a Conrad princeps, the First English Edition of The Arrow of Gold is yet a desirable book to the reader as well as the collector. Its text embodies certain corrections which, though duly forwarded to America, did not arrive there in time for incorporation in the original edition of the novel."