Search Results: the eternal moment and other stories by forster e m

Mariner Books, 1970. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harvest / Harcourt. 1970. vg. Paperback. ISBN:9780156291255 112 pages; contents clean; binding solid; light shelf wear to edges of white cover with color illustration on front .

Universal Library, 1956. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dover Pubns, 2023. Paperback. New. 96 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.04 inches.

Mariner Books, 1970. Paperback. New. 112 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches.

Hardback. New.

Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1928 Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Second printing July 1928. Some edge wear and soiling to blue cloth hardcover. Owner stamps and numerous date stamps on front end papers. Owner stamp on rear end paper, and front flap of dust jacket pasted to inside rear cover. Otherwise a solid, unmarked book. 245 pp. .

NY: Harcourt Brace. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1928. Second Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth, labels to spine and front. 2nd printing, July 1928. Covers rubbed, bottom cloth edge and page edges mildly dampstained. PO bookplate. Pages lightly toned. Firm binding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 245 pages .

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1928. First edition, first printing hardcover with printed front board, no dust jacket, in good condition for its age. Front board and spine are sunned and foxed. Face block face and foot are rough cut, and tanned, foxed and blemished. Pastedowns are also lightly tanned and foxed. A few light spots of foxing noted on a few of the pages. Pages are otherwise clear and binding is sound. LW. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First printing. Book in good/acceptable condition, no dust-jacket, some wear and rubbing. Paper labels grubby and rubbed. Internally clean, top corner of front pastedown excised. 245p.

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London:: Sidgwick and Jackson,, 1928.. First edition.. publisher's cloth.. A few spots to cloth; but a bright, fresh, unworn copy.. 8vo,.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson,, 1928. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo. 188pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt titles. Slight wear to extremities and light fading to cloth, otherwise very good indeed. No jacket.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928. Pp. [viii]+188; cr. 8vo; maroon cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, edges a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the edges and backstrip lightly browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown above the earlier bookplate (designed by Spooner) of Australian journalist Neil Jillett, outer leaves lightly offset, top slightly foxed; Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1928. First edition, first impression. Kirkpatrick A13a.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928. First edition. [viii], 188 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Maroon cloth gilt. Fine copy in the scarce printed dust jacket (some toning to spine panel). First edition. [viii], 188 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Includes the dystopian tale, 'The Machine Stops'. Forster's science fiction story "The Machine Stops" is a picture of a hyper-connected world - where mediated or virtual communication has replaced direct personal contact. First published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review in 1909, Forster intended it "as a counter-blast to one of the heavens of H. G. Wells.". Kirkpatrick A13a; Negley, Utopian Literature, 378; Wessells 20

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd,, 1928. First edition, first impression, first issue, of Forster's collection of short stories, including the first appearance in book form of the pioneering science fiction story, "The Machine Stops". This copy has a gilt top edge, denoting it as a first issue, and possibly one of a handful of copies sent to Forster for presentation: Kirkpatrick notes that "thirty-five copies with gilt tops were supplied to the author for his personal use". "The Machine Stops" was originally published in an almost-unobtainable Cambridge magazine in 1909. It describes a world where the human population lives underground and relies on "the Machine" to meet all bodily and spiritual needs. Communication is made via the machine and the sharing of ideas passes for knowledge. The story has been described as "the first full-scale emergence of the twentieth-century anti-utopia" (Hillegas, pp. 82-94). Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt and within triple gilt… Read More