Forster E M King Francis (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st American edition; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; 128 clean, unmarked pages. 122 b/w Illus (illustrator).

Condition: Acceptable. signed by Francis King.

Condition: D'occasion - Comme neuf.

Thames and Hudson, London 1978.128 pages. Illustrated in b/w. orig. boards in dust wrapper. Near fine-/very good+ wrapper condition.

Hardcover. dj. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition.Inscribed by Francis King "To Melanie with Love from Francis 2 July1978" and signed as well on the title page. A fine copy in the publisher's original grey cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front in a near fine "unclipped" pictorial dust wrapper depicting E.M. Forster by George Platt Lynes on the front panel and in his King's College, Cambridge rooms on the back panel. Small 4to. 128 pp. With 122 black and white photographs throughout. A superb biography of the author of A Passage To India and Howards End. Signed.…

First edition, first impression, of this novel by the author of E. M. Forster and his World (1978). This copy comes from the library of E. M. Forster, with his ink ownership inscription noting "K.C.C." (King's College Cambridge) to the front free endpaper. This nice association copy. It was later gifted by Forster to his friend Eric Fletcher, who had met him when he was an undergraduate at King's College between 1945 and 1948. The 68 year old Forster was, by then, firmly settled into Cambridge college life, living the life of a traditional bachelor don, ".he was looked after; he was among friends; he knew the way of life and loved the city and it's buildings. and at his age it was convenient" (Furbank), and modestly put up with his great fame, finding his enormous daily post a nuisance but enjoying a stream of visitors, many of them young men who looked on him as a mentor or sage. One of these young men was Eric Fletcher. They immediately struck up a warm friendship and embarked on a correspondence of "several hundred letters of gossip, affection and advice" (Furbank) which would continue until Forster's death. P.N. Furbank, E M Forster: A Life, vol.2, 1978, pp. 277-8. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. A fine copy in bright jacket, slight toning to spine panel but unfaded, minor soiling to folds and rear panel, unclipped.…