E. M. Forster

A first edition and first printing copy of the acclaimed book set in British colonial India during the rise of the Indian independence movement, in the rare original dust jacket.

• E.M. Forster (English).
• London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1924.
• 325 pages.
• Bound in original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in black, in original (7/6 net) typographic dust jacket.

A Passage to India was the product of Forster's longstanding interest in India, intensified by his close friendship with Syed Ross Masood, vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh, and grounded in his own travels through India in 1912 and his 1921 position as private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas. As the most successful of Forster's novels, it inspired a 1960 Forster-approved play by Santha Rama Rau as well as the 1984 film by David Lean, and was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse.