Passage to India by Forster, Arnold 1924 (68 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.88.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. First time in Black Classics for Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj. Featuring a new introduction by novelist Pankaj Mishra.When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world. "First published by Edward Arnold 1924."--title page verso. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Early Printing. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1925. Hardcover early printing. A very good copy bound in publisher's red cloth with black stamped lettering on the spine and front cover, with 3 pages of ads at rear. The book is square and straight with some loosening at the gutters. The book is rubbed throughout with some edgewear at the extremities. a bookplate on the front pastedown indicates prior ownership by Harding "Pete" LeMay, a Knop editor and well-known author and playwright as well as a two-time Emmy Award-winning author of two prominent raidio operas, Guiding Light and Another World. A Passage to India is Forster's best book, a novel by Forster 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 20th century English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. Fifth impression from 1924, the year of the first publication by Edward Arnold. There is some fading to the spine which has a little rubbing and several tears at the top and bottom. The front and rear panels have some rubbing to the edges and bumping to the corners and there are a few small surface marks. The edges of the pages are browned with some spotting to the fore edges . Previous owner's name in pen to the front pastedown which also has a small bookseller label at the bottom right corner. Scattered light spotting to the free and rear free endpapers with some heavier spotting affecting the next few pages. There is no half-title page but this is how the book was originally published. The pages are browned with a spotting in a several places and there is aquarter inch closed tear to the top edge of page 189 but the pages are otherwise generally clean and unmarked. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. Original cloth. 2nd impression. Rubbing/denting to cloth, partial bookplate, bookseller stamp 3x, endpages toned. Pages slightly toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 325,[3] pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 325 pages with 3 pages of publishers adverts at the rear, a Boots Book-Lovers Library advert perforated loose label tipped in a t page 1. Maroon ribbed cloth, titles embossed in black on cover and spine, head of spine worn and creases show, top corner has a tiny fade mark, mild age discolouring, an old Boots Library label showing the purchase inside back board contents firm and edges browned but type and contents clean. Octavo.

325 pp. 8vo, publisher's scarlet cloth. Fourth impression. Slightly cocked; bright and near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: good. . 1924 4th imp, light rubbing to boards, no dustjacket, neat name on endpaper, hinge lightly cracked, no markings, binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Thick 8vo, original cloth, spine a little faded, 325pp., terminal publisher's ads. Some sporadic, light foxing. A good+ to Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Impression. G hardback, No dust wrapper. 1924 Edward Arnold & Co, Second impression. Burgundy boards, 3pp of Edward Arnold catalogue of E.M. Forsters novels at rear. Small inscription top of front end-paper, age-tanned end-papers & page edges, very light touch of foxing to first & last few pages, small nick to fore-edge of f.e.p. Touch of sunning to spine and minor rubbing & fraying to head & tail of spine and small indent top front edge. NB. Regrettably NOT available to send to EU countries.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, Fourth Impression published 1924. The book is beautifully bound in a black morocco spine with raised bands and marbled boards. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with minor discoloration to the edges. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing bound in the publisher's Red Color Cloth. The book is in excellent condition with light wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No D/J. First Edition. No D/J. Heavy fading to spine. Some mottling and light rubbing to board edges. Small area of label residue to front board. EX BOOTS LIBRARY FIRST EDITION. Embossed stamp to ffep. Library label to rear. Some foxing. Tanning to end papers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Bound in red cloth with black lettering on the front cover & spine. All clean, bright & unmarked. Contents clean and unmarked. "Third impression" stated on the title page. A very nice, quality used book.

Condition: Fine in near fine jacket. First edition thus. First edition of this play based on E. M. Forster's 1924 novel, a story of scandal and racism that takes place in British colonial India during the rise of the Indian independence movement. Indian-American writer Santha Rama Rau was the author of "the first memoir written by a South Asian American" (Wenying Xu), HOME TO INDIA (1945), published to acclaim while she was the first Indian student at Wellesley. She began work on this stage adaptation of Forster's A PASSAGE TO INDIA soon after the country won its independence in 1947; it found success both in the West End and Broadway. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original green cloth boards. Original unclipped (10/6) dust jacket. 112 pages. Jacket with light sunning to spine and a bit at edges. Book clean and firm.

Condition: Fair. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. 1st edition. 12mo. 325pp. Book Good. No dust jacket. Spine sunned; ends worn, front joint worn. Boards edgeworn. Upper corner of front board bumped, along with first half of textblock. Hinges started. binding cracked at p. 305. Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4th impression. pp 325 light foxing name erased on fly ink stamp 'Colonial Library' on verso spine cloth slightly faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Later Printing. London: Edward Arnold, 1924. The fifth novel by Forster (1879-1970), considered the premier work of fiction on the British Raj. This is a Very Good copy of a Later Printing (4th Impression) of the First Edition. Red cloth binding with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Clean text; 325 pages, with three pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. Spine a bit darkened; mild bumps; edges a bit dusty; a touch of spotting confined to first two or three pages. Lacking the dust wrapper; in an archival plastic protector. A sound copy, if not the most beautiful. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

HC. 325 pp plus 3 pp advertisements Second Impression, year of publication. Red cloth over board. Soiling, wear to spine and foot, but sound. Remnant of pink sticker on front paste down, discoloured ffly, light foxing to prelims. No dw.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Edward Arnold & Co, first edition, 1924, 3 pages of advertisements for the author's other books. There is some heavy foxing on the title page which dissipates over the first few pages of the book and then after that the text block is overall very clean. There is some moderate rubbing to the boards, overall clean and free of excessive sunning or soiling. There is a bit of scattered foxing on the page edges only. The binding is solid. There is a previous owner's name inked in exceedingly small on the inside of the front board and a pencil notation of price and edition very small and very old. A quite wonderful example of this Arnold first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, SECOND impression (1924); 3pp of adverts for the author's other titles; identical to the first other for the 'Second Impression' statement to the title page. Very Good: firm and square binding in sharp red boards; lightly faded to the spine and rubbed to the spine tips; toning and light foxing to the edge of the page block; small dusty stain to the top of the block by the binding; previous owner's elegant bookplate to the front pastedown and signature and date to the ffep; spotting to the endpapers, prelims and final few pages; otherwise, the occasional isolated spot or mark internally - fundamentally crisp and clean pages. Lacking the dustwrapper. An attractive early printing. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard.

12mo. pp. 325, [3]ads. dark red cloth (some discolouration to cloth on upper cover & lower spine, otherwise a good, tight copy). First Canadian Edition (London sheets with cancel title).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ist Canadian Edition, Book is dirty but solid and intact Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 325, 3 (ad.) pp. Original dark red cloth, black lettering, backstrip slightly discoloured.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. dj: none book: red boards. Worn. 325 pages, 3 pages of ads. owner name inside f cover. calling it fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, Canadian issue, bound with sheets of the English edition, with cancel title page (the Canadian issue not noted by *Kirkpatrick*; see A10a for the English issue). Octavo. 325 pp. (followed by 3 pages of ads for Forster titles published in England by Arnold, as with the English issue). Publisher's red cloth stamped in black on spine and front cover. Ex-lending library copy, with small white ink shelf number on spine and library pocket neatly affixed to rear flyleaf, but with no other library markings in text. Owner's small, contemporary, ink signature on front flyleaf, a bit rubbed at extremities, front and rear flyleaves lightly foxed, else a very good copy. *Connolly 100* #45. *OCLC* locates just six copies of the Canadian issue.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. 1 vol., with 3 pages of ads at rear. Bound in the publisher's black stamped dark red cloth, mild general handling to spine, back corners square, inner and outer hinges fine, neat ownership signature to front blank endleaf dated June 1924, minor foxing to edge of textblock, otherwise internally clean and bright, still a VERY GOOD copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo; original red cloth lettered in black. 325 pp. + ads. Spine ends lightly frayed, but a far nicer copy than usually found; book is solid and square.

First edition. Octavo. 325 pages. Three pages of adverts at rear. Original red cloth lettered in black.Edges and prelims slightly spotted. Heavier spotting to last few leaves. Covers rubbed at the edges and a bit marked. Spine faded. A couple of snags to head of spine. Good. No dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. 1 vol., with 3 pages of ads at rear. Bound in the publisher's black stamped dark red cloth, mild general handling to spine, back corners square, inner and outer hinges fine, no slant to spine, mild offsetting to endpapers, small neat ownership signature to upper edge of blank endleaf dated 1924, no other ownership markings, absolutely no foxing to text, internally clean and bright, a VERY GOOD+ without foxing and without any repairs.