Conrad (Joseph) The Rescue, first generally published English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Dr. & Mrs.Whitehead Reid with the greatest regard from Jospeh Conrad Dec. 1920" to endpaper, light toning to endpapers, neat book label of Stanley J. Seeger to front pastedown, original green smooth cloth lettered in gilt on spine with upper cover in blind (Cagle's "a" binding), slight shelf-lean, extremities a little rubbed, dust-jacket, light toning, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head, short tear to upper panel with neat tape repair to verso, [Cagle A49b(2)], 8vo, J. M. Dent, 1920.

⁂ Douglas Whitehead Reid (1883-1930) senior surgeon at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. During the early 1920s he attended to Jessie Conrad's problems with her leg, a subject that regularly features in Conrad's correspondence at the time.