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First impression of the true first edition, published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1938. Only 2,250 copies were printed, of which 1,065 went to Harcourt Brace for the US edition. ***Very good in thin blue cloth-covered boards with black titles to the spine. The boards are nice and clean. Edges of boards slightly rubbed and creased. Top edge of boards slightly faded. The fragile spine has no splits or tears and is also unfaded, having been protected by the dustwrapper. Top edge of text-block slightly discoloured. Internally also very good, with no inscriptions. Hardly any of the usual foxing to the pages, just some light foxing to the endpapers. Pages clean. Some very slight creasing to the bottom corner tips of just a few pages. Spine tight. ***In a very good buff-coloured, red-printed dustwrapper, showing the original publisher's printed price of 7s. 6d. net on the spine, but very faded. The spine of the dustwrapper is slightly browned, and the red titles have faded. Although largely complete, there is a small area of loss at the head of the spine. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. No other chips or tears. The dustwrapper is fragile but well preserved. ***188 mm x128 mm. 304 pages including bibliography and index to rear. Contents: Setting; Beginnings; Where Angels Fear to Tread; The Longest Journey; Modern Literature and Dante; A Room with a View; Howards End; Interval; Guide Book; Alexandrian Essays; Other Essays; A Passage to India; Ironies and Appreciations; Aspects of the Novel; The Sinister Corridor; Biography; Some Conclusions, Bibliography; Index. ***'No other contemporary writer has a reputation and position comparable with Mr. Forster. His first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread, was published thirty-three years ago; his last, a Passage to India, fourteen years ago. He wrote, besides these, three other novels, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, and Howards End, and a large number of critical, literary, biographical and general essays, a guide-book and a biography. All of his novels except A Passage to India were published before the war. Yet his reputation as a writer and novelist appears continually to grow, and it is significant that his work appeals to each succeeding generation, and not least to some of the most vigorous and "advanced" among the poets and novelists who are writing to-day. ***No full-length study of his work has hitherto appeared, but now Miss Rose Macaulay has written this book which deals with his literary work, his outlook upon the world and life, and its significance in relation to his age.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original 1938 dustwrapper - hard to find in such collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of the Hogarth Press and the Bloomsbury group, Rose Macaulay and E. M. Forster related first editions. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
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