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FORSTER, E.M.
Holograph
manuscript.
Holograph manuscript,
lacking signature, with author corrections.
4 pages, with one additional page on verso
of page 3 crossed out and abandoned as
early draft. With Autograph Note Signed.
Condition very good, bottom (presumably
blank)
1
/
4
portion of final manuscript page
absent, folded for mailing, paper clip
residue on first page of ALS and ANS.
London, 1937
[800/1,200]
Forster’s forward for Alec Craig’s 1937 publica-
tion The Banned Books of England (London:
George Allen & Unwin, 1937). He approv-
ingly discusses Craig’s book and in the course of
the essay mentions several notorious obscenity
trials and banned books, including Ulysses,
Havelock Ellis, the “Sexual Impulse case,” and
the “uncertain justice” implicit in censorship of
this kind, using Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of
Wisdom as an example of how “sometimes a
book gets through [the censors].”
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FORSTER, E.M.
A Passage to
India.
3 pages of publisher’s advertise-
ments at end. 8vo, publisher’s maroon
cloth, minor rubbing to spine tips; endpa-
pers toned; Gilbert A. Harrison bookplate
on verso of first blank, discreet bookseller’s
label on front pastedown.
SIGNED FIRST
TRADE EDITION
of Forster’s last and most
famous novel. Kirkpatrick A10; Connolly,
The Modern Movement 45.
London: Edward Arnold, 1924
[700/1,000]
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FORSTER, E.M.
Howards End.
Half title, publisher’s advertisement at end. 8vo,
publisher’s red cloth, moderate shelf wear, spine uniformly faded, extremities slightly
rubbed; hinges tender, some toning to endpapers, later signatures beginning to separate; old
ownership signature on front free endpaper, Gilbert A. Harrison bookplate and discreet
bookseller’s label on pastedowns.
SIGNED FIRST EDITION
, second impression with 8 pages of
publisher’s catalogue bound-in at the end. Kirkpatrick A4a.
London: Edward Arnold, 1910
[500/750]
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