FORSTER, E. M. The Longest Journey, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1907, 8°, FIRST EDITION (front free endpaper replaced), original green cloth (extremities a little bumped and frayed), bookplate of Francis Meynell [Kirkpatrick Forster A2a]; Aspects of the Novel, London: Edward Arnold, 1927, 8°, FIRST EDITION (first few leaves lightly spotted, endpapers browned), original crimson cloth. [Kirkpatrick Forster A12a] With 10 other works by Forster. (12)

Sale 7386

The Library of the Late Jean Albert Gondrexon 1906-1985

London, South Kensington

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25 October 1996

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Lot 83

FORSTER, E. M. The Longest Journey, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1907, 8°, FIRST EDITION (front free endpaper replaced), original green cloth (extremities a little bumped and frayed), bookplate of Francis Meynell [Kirkpatrick Forster A2a]; Aspects of the Novel, London: Edward Arnold, 1927, 8°, FIRST EDITION (first few leaves lightly spotted, endpapers browned), original crimson cloth. [Kirkpatrick Forster A12a] With 10 other works by Forster. (12)

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GBP 437

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GBP 250 - GBP 350

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FORSTER, E. M. The Longest Journey, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1907, 8°, FIRST EDITION (front free endpaper replaced), original green cloth (extremities a little bumped and frayed), bookplate of Francis Meynell [Kirkpatrick Forster A2a]; Aspects of the Novel, London: Edward Arnold, 1927, 8°, FIRST EDITION (first few leaves lightly spotted, endpapers browned), original crimson cloth. [Kirkpatrick Forster A12a] With 10 other works by Forster. (12)
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The other Forster titles include Abinger Harvest (London, 1936, first ediiton, first issue), Two Cheers for Democracy (London, 1951), Marianne Thornton 1797-1887. A domestic biography (London, 1956) and Maurice (London, 1971), all but the first in dust-jackets.
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