Lot 46
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FORSTER, E.M. (1879-1970). A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold, 1924. 8°. Original red cloth printed in black. Blackwell's book ticket. Inscribed on free endpaper 'Philip from O June 4th 1924', with photograph of the author in a garden reading a newspaper taped to front pastedown, captioned in ballpoint 'E. M. Forster at Garsington'. With Ottoline Morrell's page references and notes on rear endpaper ('The A-I point of view', 'relations between people'). Some pencil lining in margins of text. FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. Kirkpatrick A10a.
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FORSTER, E.M. (1879-1970). A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold, 1924. 8°. Original red cloth printed in black. Blackwell's book ticket. Inscribed on free endpaper 'Philip from O June 4th 1924', with photograph of the author in a garden reading a newspaper taped to front pastedown, captioned in ballpoint 'E. M. Forster at Garsington'. With Ottoline Morrell's page references and notes on rear endpaper ('The A-I point of view', 'relations between people'). Some pencil lining in margins of text. FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. Kirkpatrick A10a.

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FORSTER, E.M. (1879-1970). A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold, 1924. 8°. Original red cloth printed in black. Blackwell's book ticket. Inscribed on free endpaper 'Philip from O June 4th 1924', with photograph of the author in a garden reading a newspaper taped to front pastedown, captioned in ballpoint 'E. M. Forster at Garsington'. With Ottoline Morrell's page references and notes on rear endpaper ('The A-I point of view', 'relations between people'). Some pencil lining in margins of text. FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. Kirkpatrick A10a.

As far back as 4 October 1913 Forster had written to Ottoline Morrell: 'Every one ought to go to India. There is a desert of purple stone and cold air in Rajputana where I caught some germ that will stop me ever being ill again.'
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