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FORSTER, Edward Morgan (1879-1970). A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold, 1924. 8° (225 x 150mm). Title printed in black and red. Original boards backed in cloth with title label on spine, original grey slipcase, top edge gilt, others uncut (light wear to slipcase). Provenance: E. M. Forster (inscription dated 1942).
FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 183 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH AN ADDITIONAL INSCRIPTION: 'Inscribed for the Red Cross Sales, May 1942. E. M. Forster, London'. Forster had served with the Red Cross in Alexandria during 1915. 'Forster's great novel bridges the Edwardian-Georgian era. The Mahommedan Aziz, the Hindu Dr Godbole, the emancipated Englishman Fielding and the sibylline Mrs Moore are his most complete creations against a crisis that is emotionally experienced and also worked out ethically and philosophically'. Connolly 45; Kirkpatrick A10a.
FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 183 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH AN ADDITIONAL INSCRIPTION: 'Inscribed for the Red Cross Sales, May 1942. E. M. Forster, London'. Forster had served with the Red Cross in Alexandria during 1915. 'Forster's great novel bridges the Edwardian-Georgian era. The Mahommedan Aziz, the Hindu Dr Godbole, the emancipated Englishman Fielding and the sibylline Mrs Moore are his most complete creations against a crisis that is emotionally experienced and also worked out ethically and philosophically'. Connolly 45; Kirkpatrick A10a.