Forster burra (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Tight clean book in bright red cloth; in red dust jacket with floral EL motif to front, three inch-long edgetears. Slight page toning. Burra introduction and page and a half of notes by Forster.; Everyman's Library; 972; 282 pages.

Zustand: Poor. Volume 972. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. With owner's name inside cover. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Some light foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN.…

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.…