Burnside Rare Books

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Forster, E. M.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1905.

First edition, first issue with this title not mentioned in ads at rear. [iv], 319, [1], 32 pp. Bound in publisher's slate-blue coarse cloth stamped in black and gilt. 319, 39 pp of adverts. Very Good with lean to binding, rubbing at extremities, rear hinge a little overopened. Dust soiling to top edge of textblock, former ownership and old auction record at front pastedown; poet William Matchett's copy with his bookplate on front free endpaper. Forster's first novel, set in Italy, which he wrote at only 26 years of age. The basis of a 1991 film. Kirkpatrick A1. Item #140947236

Price: $3,000