CONRAD (JOSEPH) Within the Tides, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS FRIEND RICHARD CURLE (Richard Curle from J. Conrad. A meditated attempt at four different methods of story-telling) on the front free endpaper, London & Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1915CONRAD (JOSEPH)Within the Tides, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS FRIEND RICHARD CURLE ("Richard Curle from J. Conrad. A meditated attempt at four different methods of story-telling") on the front free endpaper, half-title, some spotting, off-setting from loosely inserted newspaper cutting onto contents leaf and blank verso of dedication leaf, publisher's green vertically ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on spine, DUST-JACKET (spine darkened with small loss at head touching decoration of ship and 2 small holes with loss of one letter of imprint, split at joints, small old paper repairs), preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A18s(1)], 8vo, London & Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1915"A MEDITATED ATTEMPT AT FOUR DIFFERENT METHODS OF STORY-TELLING" - PRESENTATION COPY IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET, INSCRIBED TO RICHARD CURLE.Provenance: Richard Curle (1883-1968), close friend of Conrad from the time of their meeting in 1912. He wrote Joseph Conrad: A Study (1914), was the dedicatee of The Arrow of Gold [See lot XXX], and was co-executor of Conrad's estate after the author's death. Beneath the inscription is added in pencil, ?by Curle, the date of 1 March 1915, presumably the day on which the book was presented; his sale, American Art Association, 28 April 1927, lot 84; Sotheby's, The Joseph Conrad Collection From the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 10 July 2013, lot 91.