E. M. Forster

A signed first edition of E.M. Forster's Two Cheers for Democracy.

• E. M. Forster (English).
• London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1951.
• Signed by the Forster on the title-page.
• Bound in the publisher's original gilt lettered blue cloth, photograph of Forster and Eric Crozier tipped to the front blank endleaf titled beneath it "Photograph of E. M. Forster taken at Red House, Great Glemham, 24 August 1967 - when he autographed this book."

E. M. Forster first encountered Billy Budd in 1926. Some twenty years later, he embarked on a collaboration with Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier, adapting Melville’s novella for the opera stage.