What I Believe by E. M. Forster
$69.00
A scarce first edition and first separate printing of E. M. Forster’s influential humanist essay What I Believe, issued by the Hogarth Press in 1939 as Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets Number One.
Originally published in periodical form in 1938, the essay sets out Forster’s defence of tolerance, personal relationships, individual liberty and democracy in the shadow of approaching war. This edition is notable both as an important piece of twentieth-century political and literary thought and as an early Hogarth Press pamphlet associated with Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s celebrated publishing house.
Author: E. M. Forster
Publisher: The Hogarth Press, London
Publication year: 1939
Edition: First edition; first separate printing
Series: Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets, Number One
Format: Softcover pamphlet in original printed wrappers
Pages: 22 pages
Language: English
Condition: Used, fair condition. Original green wrappers are heavily age-toned and marked, with foxing, creasing, edge wear, a taped repair at the upper-left corner, a previous owner’s name and price notation to the front, and a folded upper corner to the title page. Internally aged and creased but complete and readable. Please inspect the photographs carefully, as they form part of the condition description.
Collections: ALL BOOKS, ALL PRODUCTS, FIRST EDITIONS, NON-FICTION BOOKS
Type: NON FICTION
Category: 1939, BLOOMSBURY GROUP, BOOKS, COLLECTABLE BOOK, DEMOCRACY, E M FORSTER, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, HOGARTH PRESS, HOGARTH SIXPENNY PAMPHLETS, HUMANISM, LITERARY ESSAYS, NON FICTION, PAMPHLET, POLITICAL ESSAYS, USED BOOK, VINTAGE BOOK, Wb107, WHAT I BELIEVE
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