Howards End by Forster: Signed (4 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Edition. New Pocket Edition Later Imp 1956. Signed by E M Forster to the title page. Book is near fine with nice bright boards. The wrapper is very good with very slight edge rubbing and nicks. Small loss to spine tips. Patchy age toning to spine. Ref19297. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 370pp. Frontispiece. Cheap paper page edges toned, else near fine in about fine dust jacket. Copy number 30 of 1000 copies published. Laid into the book is an addenda to the book by Stallybrass, a bookmark/ruler for the book, and four substantial Typed Letters Signed from noted editor and translator Stallybrass to collector and scholar George Martin in New York City, discussing the manuscripts of *Howard's End.* An interesting sidelight on Forster.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924, FIRST Numbered SIGNED Limited Edition. In recent full green morocco binding with gilt titles to the spine, four raied bands with blind tooled board decoration in line with the bands, gilt page top edges, one of 200 individually numbered copies, this one number 99, SIGNED by E. M. Forster. Damp stained internally with red colour to the bottom page margins from page 297 to the end with red colour ingress to the lower margin. First end papers replaced with offsetting to the half title, tanned to the end papers, otherwise gently tanned throughout with damp staining towards the end of the volume. With the original replacement title label still bound in. Pagination: 325pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 9 ¼ inches (23.5cm) tall. Condition Report Externally Spine - very good condition - gilt titles to three compartments, four raised bands. Joints - very good condition. Corners - very good condition. Boards - very good condition - blind tooled in line with the bands. Page edges - good condition - top edges gilt, others untrimmed, wavy and stained red to the bottom edge 297 to the end. Binding - very good condition -beautifully bound. See above and photos. Internally Hinges - very good condition - sound. Paste downs - very good condition - marbled paper. End papers - good condition - marbled paper, first end paper missing, half title with offsetting from the replaced end paper. Title - good condition - lightly tanned. Pages - good condition - generally very clean, gently tanned with damp staining to the lower page margins from page 297 to the end with red colour ingress to the lower margin. See photos. Signed by Author(s).…

first edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Edith Nesbit's copy with her ink ownership inscription on the front free endppaer, "E. Nesbit Bland, November 1 1910." Presentation copy with ink stamp to the title page. E.M. Forster first met Nesbit at her house in 1909. Nesbit had contacted the author after reading and admiring A Room with a View and wrote to invite him for lunch and to discuss his work. The two authors became friends and Forster would make regular appearances at Nesbit's gatherings of writers, artists and intellectuals. It seems likely that this copy was sent to Nesbit at Forster's request. In very good condition. An exceptional association. In Howards End Forster explores themes that would become characteristic of his novels: civilized English life, family obligations, and conflicting values.…