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Lot 257

FORSTER (E.M.)
A Passage to India, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Harold [Barger] with Morgan's love 7.6.24" on front free endpaper, Edward Arnold, 1924

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FORSTER (E.M.)

A Passage to India, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Harold [Barger] with Morgan's love 7.6.24" on front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, soiled, frayed at extremities of spine [Connolly, Modern Movement, 45; Kirkpatrick A10], 8vo, Edward Arnold, 1924

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Provenance: E.M. Forster, presented to Harold Barger (1907-1989), son of Forster's great life-long friends George Barger (1878-19390, who he met at Cambridge), and his wife Florence. From 1910 to 1958 Forster maintained an extensive correspondence With Florence, whom he described as "my only woman friend". In 1939 Harold became Professor of Economics at Columbia University, which now holds his papers (correspondence between Forster and Harold Barger being held at King's College, Cambridge); and thence by descent to the present owner.

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