[Offprint:] 'The Novels of E.M. Forster'. Reprinted by kind permission of the Editor of The Nineteenth Century and After, November 1934, Vol. CXVI, pp. 581-594.

pp. 14, 8vo, original blue stapled wrappers, slightly split to spine, good. Inscribed by the author at the head of the text, to a fellow critic: 'T. Balston, with good wishes from PJSB'. Despite the inscription this copy remained with Burra's own papers. Forster himself - in a memorial tribute following Burra's death, at the age of twenty-seven, in an aeroplane crash a few years after its publication - 'read [the article] with pleasure and pride', calling it 'a great privilege for an author to be analysed so penetratingly, and a rare one', and describing himself as 'particularly gratified' by Burra's esteem for 'The Longest Journey'. [With:] A printer's proof of the article, marked 'URGENT' at head, requesting clarification in places (largely for words missing in copy) and with a few authorial corrections [And:] A copy of the issue in which the article was first printed [And:] Burra's own copies of a few of Forster's novels, each with his pencilled ownership inscription: 'Where Angels Fear to Tread' (Arnold, Uniform Edition, 1924, remnants of dustjacket laid in); 'The Longest Journey' (Arnold, Uniform Edition, 1924, remnants of dustjacket laid in); 'Howard's End' (Arnold, Kingfisher Library, 1932) [And:] The posthumous Everyman edition of 'A Passage to India' with Burra's essay reprinted as the Introduction, preceded by Forster's tribute to Burra.…