passage to india, forster, Prima edizione, 1924 min to 1924 max

Descrizione libro: London: Edward Arnold, 1924, 1924. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Owner's inscription; very good in a dust jacket with a creased front and back panel, marginal chipping, some soiling and minor internal archival mends; a better than usual example of a fragile dust jacket. Codice libro della libreria 25295

Descrizione libro: London: Edward Arnold, 1924, 1924. First Edition. Minor cloth soiling; nearly fine in a very good dust jacket with staining and soiling and some small nicks and chips. Codice libro della libreria 26224

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1924. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First limited edition in slipcase. Number 125 of 200 copies signed by Forster. Crown 8vo., pp. [2], 325, [1], with a half-title; printed on hand-made paper, top edge gilt, others uncut, in the original brown quarter-cloth and fawn boards, paper label, spare label tipped in, spine slightly bumped. Dampstain along one lower edge of the slipcase, penetrating to inflict a narrow dampstain along the bottom of the rear cover of the volume; else a crisp, near fine copy. Kirkpatrick A10.; Connolly, One Hundred Modern Books, 57. Signed by Author(s). Codice libro della libreria 13042410

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold, London, 1924. First Edition. E.M. Forster. PASSAGE TO INDIA. Signed Limited Edition. London: Edward Arnold, 1924. 8vo., 325pp., publisher's original half brown cloth, light gray paper spine label, top edge gilt. Clear vinyl protective dustwrapper that appears to be original to the book. A beautiful near fine example of this Forster Highlight. Number 85 of only 200 large paper copies signed by Forster. Forster's 1921 return trip to India "had the effect of releasing what was to be judged his masterpiece, A Passage to India" (DNB). Andre Gide praised Forster's last novel as "a miracle of intelligence, tact, irony, prudence and ability" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 45). Without publisher's fragile slipcase. Kirkpatrick A10. An excellent, superior copy, the basis for the fine David Lean, 1984 Merchant-Ivory film, also the inspiration for the 1960 play by Santha Rama Rau which also influenced the film. The novel is set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine included the novel in its "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Forster borrowed the book's title from Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass. Kirkpatrick A10a. Signed by Author. Codice libro della libreria 32528

Descrizione libro: 1924, 1924. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. FORSTER, E.M. A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold, 1924. Octavo, original half brown cloth, gray paper spine label, top edge gilt, uncut and unopened. $5200. Signed limited first edition, number 98 of only 200 large paper copies signed by Forster. Forster's 1921 return trip to India "had the effect of releasing what was to be judged his masterpiece, A Passage to India" (DNB). Andre Gide praised Forster's last novel as "a miracle of intelligence, tact, irony, prudence and ability" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 45). Without publisher's slipcase. Kirkpatrick A10. A few small chips to lower edge of boards, minor soiling. A near-fine copy. Codice libro della libreria 62942

Descrizione libro: 1924. Forster, E.M. A PASSAGE TO INDIA. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. 325p, cloth backed boards, top edge gilt, covers soiled with minor wear, good. 1st edition, number 12 of 200 copies signed by the author. Forster (1879-1970) was a member of the Bloomsbury Group of artists in England. This is his last and greatest novel, depicting the prejudices and injustices of British rule in India. Codice libro della libreria 52764

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold & Co.,, London:, 1924. FORSTER, E. M. A PASSAGE TO INDIA. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth stamped in black on spine and front cover [Kirkpatrick calls for red cloth stamped in black], 325 pages (followed by 3 pages of ads). Connolly 100, Modern Movement title (No. 45). Top edge and fore-edge are lightly foxed, bit of faint scattered foxing on title page, else a near fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket (with cancel price label on front panel "offered at 3/6," with original printed price intact on spine "7/6 net"). The jacket is quite browned on spine, with few short tears and shallow chipping at tips of spine (with early clear tape mends on verso), cancel price sticker shadow on lower spine (with slight paper residue), front and rear panels are tanned and a bit soiled, with few short closed tears and nicks to extremities (with few early tape mends on verso), else a very good copy of a scarce dust jacket. . First edition, unrecorded variant issue, in blue (remainder) binding, not noted by Kirkpatrick [see Kirkpatrick A10a; 5000 copies printed]. Codice libro della libreria 56649

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold, 1924. Hard Cover. Condizione libro: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed numbered limited edition, no. 196 of 200. Brown cloth half-binding over greyish boards, some wear and light browning with two small faint stains and light marks. Head of spine missing (5mm above and clear of paper label) assumed lost in pulling book from presumed slipcase, now missing. Top edge gilt, dusted with age, pp42-43 faint blue ink smudges otherwise text clean. Numbered 196 and Signed "E.M.Forster" verso half-title page. Lacks slipcase. Signed by Author. Codice libro della libreria 000112

Descrizione libro: Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1924. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth boards, lettered in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 322pp. A straight, tight copy, moderately foxed on prelims and page edges, scattered faint foxing to text; solidly Very Good. In original dustwrapper, price-clipped and with old clear tape reinforcements verso, still very nicely preserved with just mild edgewear and mild toning at flap-folds; Near Fine. The First American edition of Forster's final work of fiction. A Passage To India was Forster's most popular novel in his lifetime and, thanks to the 1984 film adaptation by David Lean, it remains his best-known work. The American edition is uncommon, and notably scarce in dustwrapper; this a very presentable copy. CONNOLLY 100. Codice libro della libreria 17020

Descrizione libro: London, Edward Arnold & Co., 1924, 1924. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, plain dark green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. First edition, first impression. Codice libro della libreria 44353

Descrizione libro: 1924. FORSTER, E.M. A PASSAGE TO INDIA. London: Edward Arnold, 1924. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. 325, (3) pages. First edition, first issue. Stamped in black on the spine and with a three-page advertisement for Forster other novels bound at the rear, this is the first issue of the first editon o Forster's classic tale. Some light foxing to a very few pages and browning t endpapers. Still a very good copy. Codice libro della libreria 36935

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold and Co., London, 1924, 1924. FIRST EDITION. Publishers dark red cloth with black titles to the spine and upper board. Internally clean, backstrip a touch sunned. Near fine. The great novel of the British Raj, it remains a brilliant study of empire. A Passage To India was the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, founded in memory of a partner in the publishing house of A. and C. Black Ltd., and one of the oldest and most prestigious book awards in Britain. Kirkpatrick [A10] Connolly 100. Listed in The Observer's All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003]. Codice libro della libreria 39465

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold, London, 1924. Cloth. Condizione libro: Near Fine. First Impression. First British trade edition (no additional printings noted on the copyright page). 8vo: [4], 5-325, [3, publisher's advertisements for earlier Forster's titles]pp, without half-title (as issued). Original vertically ribbed wine-red cloth, the spine and upper board lettered in black, the bottom edge untrimmed; collector's blind stamp to the title page. A Near Fine copy, without the scarce dust jacket, the cloth a shade darkened in spots, first few leaves with scattered spotting, page margins slightly age-toned, but a quite collectible copy of this classic. Kirkpatrick A10a. Connolly Modern Movement 45. Time 100. According to the Literary Encyclopedia, Forster's last and best novel, the title taken from a poem by Whitman, gestated during a ten-year period that spanned the First World War, Gandhi's return to India from South Africa and the start of his civil disobedience campaign, the First Government of India Act, an upsurge in Indian Nationalist feeling, British promises of Independence, and the massacre at Amritsar. "Mindful of the imponderables of human conduct, alert to all the reciprocal misjudgments and the wearying false appraisals we make as a matter of course, he looked at empire and saw its weak foundations. . . . In his other great novel, Howard's End, Forster directed us to "only connect." What he demonstrates here, in a story of the greatest and saddest subtleties — and comic subtleties, too — is how nearly impossible that is to do." (Time 100) Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Codice libro della libreria BB0883

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold & Co. London.,1924, 1924. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Near fine copy with just minimal pale foxing to the first and last pages. In original publishers deep red cloth with black lettering to front board and spine. There is some very minor rubbing to the edges but overall this is a lovely crisp, clean copy with no fading to the cloth and the black lettering still sharp and strong. Loosely inserted is a 4pp publishers booklet announcing new titles for spring 1924, with this novels on page one.: Codice libro della libreria 7804

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1924. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First trade edition with 3 pp undated ads. 8vo, 325 pp. Original deep red cloth lettered in black. Forster's famous novel of India, in which the English community is portrayed as quick to condemn an Indian doctor accused of assaulting a young Englishwoman. This is a "trade issue" copy because there were also 200 numbered copies issued in paper-covered boards (no precedence). This volume, without half-title as issued, is in fine condition, with essentially no wear at all and with only the slightest hint of fading on the spine (a little more at the very top of the spine)¿typically a problem for this deep red cloth. Elected as #25 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the Twentieth Century. Kirkpatrick A10a. Codice libro della libreria 13042416

Descrizione libro: 1924. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. 3 pp undated ads. Original deep red cloth lettered in black. First Edition, trade issue, of Forster's famous novel of India, in which the English community is portrayed as quick to condemn an Indian doctor accused of assaulting a young Englishwoman.~.Forster's most famous novel, and the last one he wrote. There was considerable criticism of his portraits of the English in India. Forster made a humane and liberal Englishman, Fielding, a rare exception and this was less than fair. But his diagnosis of the less than perfect relationship of the Indian to his Anglo-Saxon overlord as arising from insensitivity and arrogance on the one hand, and generations of endured rudeness and condescension on the other is accurate as a factor in politics, as many non-Englishmen can testify. Forster was frequently asked why he stopped writing novels [he lived 46 more years]: 'I have nothing more to say,' he replied. [CGEL]~This is a "trade issue" copy because there were also 200 numbered copies issued in paper-covered boards (no precedence).~This volume, without half-title as issued, is in near-fine condition, with only the slightest of rubbing at the extremities (and at one small spot at the bottom of the front cover). There is much less than usual fading on the spine -- typically a problem for this deep red cloth -- and a bit of foxing only on the leaves at each end. Kirkpatrick A10a; selected as #25 in the Modern Library 100. Codice libro della libreria 11985

Descrizione libro: Arnold, UK, 1924. Decorative Cloth. Condizione libro: Very Good +. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1924. Book is very good+ and quite bright. Contents very good. Page edges age toned. Inscription to inner page. PLEASE DOUBLE CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO ENLARGE. Digital images available upon request.Ref 5974. Codice libro della libreria 008943

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1924. Hardcover. First Edition. Red cloth with the spine stamped in black; a three-page advertisement for Forster's other novels bound at the rear. Offsetting to endpapers, paper a little aged; some darkening to covers. Very Good or better, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Codice libro della libreria 014785

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold, London, 1924. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Some foxing to page edges. Book cover is a little bumped and worn but overall binding still tight and a good to very good copy. Red cloth stamped in black, 325 pages (followed by 3 pages of ads). Codice libro della libreria 2160

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold, 1924. Red Cloth. Condizione libro: Very Good. First Edition. Some foxing to early pages. Covers slightly rubbed. Codice libro della libreria 005966

Descrizione libro: Arnold, London, 1924. Cloth. Condizione libro: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition of what is perhaps E M Forster's most famous novel. Red ribbed cloth, good, titles stamped in black on front cover and spine, spine slightly sunned, 325pp plus three pages of advertisements, as is often the case with this edition, some foxing and spotting throughout, ex libris plate to frontispiece. Codice libro della libreria 000281

Descrizione libro: London: Edward Arnold & Co. 1924, London, 1924. Red Cloth. Condizione libro: Very Good. First Edition. 328 pp, 7 1/2" x 4 7/8". PP 326 to 328 are publisher's advertisements, integral. Dark red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine. Top and foredges trimmed; bottom edge of pages are rough trimmed. Spine very slightly faded, some wear to head of spine and tips without loss of cloth. Slight fading on the bottom half. of front cover. White endpapers with slight age-browning. No names or marks, not ex-library, original binding. Codice libro della libreria 020587

Descrizione libro: Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co., 1924., 1924. First Canadian edition. Spine slightly faded o/w an about fine copy. Codice libro della libreria 1213

Descrizione libro: Longmans, Green, Toronto, 1924. Hardcover. First Canadian issue. Octavo. Dark red ribbed cloth lettered in black. 325 pp + (3) pp UK (Edward Arnold) ads. Bruise to upper outer corner of front cover; light yellowing to page edges and endpapers; oval rubber stamp of a Canadian bookstore on front free endpaper (City Book & News Co., Vancouver), else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. Made from UK sheets with cancel title leaf. The Canadian issue not noted by Kirkpatrick A10a. The author's best known book, in an issue that is much scarcer than either the UK or US editions. Connolly Modern Movement #45. #25 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the Twentieth Century series. Codice libro della libreria 39006

Descrizione libro: Arnold, 1924. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first edition, first printing, first issue (with adverts to rear) published by Arnold in 1924. A very good+ copy with one name to pastedown and one inscription to the front free endpaper. A couple of very light stains to boards, but a really lovely copy of this rare title. Codice libro della libreria ABE-8390998773

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold and Co., London, 1924, 1924. Publishers dark red cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. Book is near fine with some toning to flyleaves, first gathering slighly proud, cloth ishows minimal wear. FIRST EDITION. It would appear that the 'second impression' statement has been discreetly removed. The great novel of the British Raj, it remains a brilliant study of empire. A Passage To India was the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, founded in memory of a partner in the publishing house of A. and C. Black Ltd., and one of the oldest and most prestigious book awards in Britain. Kirkpatrick [A10] Connolly 100. Listed in The Observer's All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003]. Codice libro della libreria 35161

Descrizione libro: London: Edward Arnold, 1924, 1924. First edition. 8vo. 325 pp. Original burgundy cloth, spine titled in black. Rubbed, small previous owner's signature on front paste-down; a very good copy. Kirkpatrick A10a. Codice libro della libreria 227813

Descrizione libro: Longmans, Green & Co./ London: Edward Arnold & Co.,, Toronto:, 1924. FORSTER, E. M. A PASSAGE TO INDIA. Octavo, publisher's red cloth stamped in black on spine and front cover, 325 pages (followed by 3 pages of ads for Forster books published by Arnold-- as in the English issue). A Connolly 100 'Modern Movement' title (No. 45). Scarce in the Canadian issue [OCLC notes only six holdings]. Owner's attractive contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Cloth is very slightly rubbed at extremities, preliminary pages slightly foxed, else a near fine, bright copy, with the text fresh and clean. First edition, Canadian issue, bound with sheets of the English edition and cancel title page; not noted by Kirkpatrick [see Kirkpatrick A10a for the English issue]. Codice libro della libreria 61185

Descrizione libro: Edward Arnold & Co, London, 1924. First Edition. Dark red cloth, lacking dustjacket, faded at spine, prelims. foxed, and light foxing throughout. 325 pages + 3 pages of advertisements for Forster's other works at end. Codice libro della libreria 022531