Richard Curle // Joseph Conrad's Last Day

Softcover book. Only 100 copies. 

In good condition despite discoloration of covers.

Richard Curle (1883–1968) was a Scottish author, critic, and journalist. He was a friend of the novelist Joseph Conrad, who was also the subject of several of his critical works. 

Conrad and Curle became friends in the 1910s, becoming especially close in Conrad's last years. Following Conrad's death in 1924 Curle was an executor of his estate. 

Curle's first book on Conrad, Joseph Conrad: A Study, was published in 1914; it was followed by Joseph Conrad's Last Day (privately published in 1924) and The Last Twelve Years of Joseph Conrad (1928), as well as a number of reviews and magazine articles.

 
As with the companion piece, The Dover Patrol, Conrad disliked the initial printing because it lacked a title page (other than the wrapper), and asked that it immediately be reprinted to include one. This second printing is the one most often seen today." [SOURCE: James Cummins bookseller web site)