Lot 45
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FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970). Alexandria: A History and Guide. Alexandria: Whitehead Morris, 1922. 8°. Folding maps in text and rear pocket, one incorrectly placed opposite p.44 instead of p.144. Original buff paper covered boards. FIRST EDITION. Kirkpatrick A8a: 'A very large proportion of the edition was destroyed by fire during the blitz.'
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium. E.M. FORSTER (1879-1970) A Kingsman and an Apostle with many Bloomsbury friends, E. M. Forster began publishing in 1905 with Where Angels Fear to Tread, and achieved success with Howards End in 1910. He travelled through Germany, Egypt and India in 1914 with the Cambridge classicist G. Lowes Dickinson, whose biography he was to write in 1934. After a second trip to India in the 1920s he wrote his last and greatest novel, A Passage to India. He lived off the reputation of his five novels for nearly five more decades, moving to Cambridge after the war, and spending his last 17 years in King's. The liberal atmosphere of Garsington and the friends he made there were a solace to him at times when he felt unable to fulfil the yearning expressed in his fiction: 'Only connect'.
FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970). Alexandria: A History and Guide. Alexandria: Whitehead Morris, 1922. 8°. Folding maps in text and rear pocket, one incorrectly placed opposite p.44 instead of p.144. Original buff paper covered boards. FIRST EDITION. Kirkpatrick A8a: 'A very large proportion of the edition was destroyed by fire during the blitz.'

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FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970). Alexandria: A History and Guide. Alexandria: Whitehead Morris, 1922. 8°. Folding maps in text and rear pocket, one incorrectly placed opposite p.44 instead of p.144. Original buff paper covered boards. FIRST EDITION. Kirkpatrick A8a: 'A very large proportion of the edition was destroyed by fire during the blitz.'
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