Battersea Rise

by E. M Forster

$40 · Offered by Between the Covers

First edition

Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. Spine tanned, edges lightly rubbed, near fine in decorated boards as issued. The first chapter of Forster's last major book, a biography of his great-aunt Marianne Thornton, who had a considerable influence upon his family and his writing the title taken from the name of the family estate . Issued by the publisher as a New Year's greeting, with a card laid in from a Harcourt, Brace employee. *Kirkpatrick* A33.

• Binding: Hardcover

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