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Forster, E.M.. Original Letters from India (1779-1815): Mrs. Eliza Fay. The Hogarth Press, 1925.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are shelf rubbed, edge worn and marked, but remain strong and sturdy. Internally, the front hinge is cracked. There is an ex-libris plate under the front board and a previous owner's signature on the front end page. There is tanning throughout, but the pages are otherwise crisp and complete. The binding is sound. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$22.17 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 288 pages, indexed, with introductory notes by EM Forster, a facsimile of Mrs Fay's portrait, the original letters from India by Mrs Fay, reprinted from the 1st edition of 1817, and terminal notes by EM Forster. The book bears a bookplate for the Seafarers' Education Service on the front paste down, with an additional informatory plate pasted to the front free end page. There is a circular rubber stamp from the Education Service on the title page. The edges of the text block are age, and have trace of foxing, the end pages are offset tanned, but the main damage, is to the Green cloth of the binding, which is flecked, with some discolouration from handling (mishandling) with rubbing at the head and tail of the spine. "Eliza Fay is a work of art. But she was also a historical character, who wielded and resumed a pen, and from that point of view some brief notes may be acceptable; the reader can be trusted to forget them as soon as he enters her tremendous presence and gazes upon a pre-potent form. (See frontispiece). -- From the introduction page 7 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: frontispiece Illustration. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sexuality & Gender; Letters; Local History -- India; Inventory No: 0234735.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With introductory and terminal notes by E M Forster. 288pp including index. Green cloth boards with gilt titles and colophon to spine. Library label pasted to fep with Sangalore Bookseller's stamp below.Printed contemporary 'blurb' pasted to ffep. Boards faded and worn with tears to cloth. Corners and extremities bumped. Some pages lightly foxed. Textblock clean and tight. Overall this is a very good copy but as the covers are tatty it would make a perfect candidate for an art book binding project.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Reprint of the 1817 Calcutta edition, with notes by Forster. One of 1050 copies printed (210 were pulped in 1932). Portrait and 1817 title page in facsimile. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolmer 62; Kirkpatrick B3a Original green cloth. A little shaken, some soiling and rubbing. Good/Very Good Portrait and 1817 title page in facsimile. 1 vols. 8vo Reprint of the 1817 Calcutta edition, with notes by Forster. One of 1050 copies printed (210 were pulped in 1932).
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Spine faded, endpapers browned. Good to very good. First modern reprint of the rare first edition of 1817. Binding is Cloth.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp 288. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Ownership signature on front pastedown of Oliver Strachey (1874 - 1960) cryptographer (Bletchley ) and brother of Lytton Strachey. Bloomsbury set. Slight fading and faint tanning at spine, otherwise sound clean about very good
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom