FORSTER, EDWARD MORGAN. 1879-1970. A Passage to India. London Edward Arnold & Co., 1924.

The Library of David Lloyd, Part IFORSTER, EDWARD MORGAN. 1879-1970.
A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. 8vo. Publisher's burgundy cloth, original dust jacket. Light darkening to spine, dust jacket with light chipping and splitting to edges, darkening to spine panel and to verso of jacket. FIRST TRADE EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on front free endpaper and additionally signed on title page (his printed name with his ink line through it). E.M. Forster's most famous novel; according to Connolly Andre Gide praised Forster's novel as "a miracle of intelligence, tact, irony, prudence and ability." 3 pp advertisements at end. Connolly Modern Movement 45; Kirkpatrick A10a.