I have been in the rare and antiquarian book business for over forty years; my family has been in the rare books business since 1876. Rare books are in my blood.
Forsyte Saga, The
London: William Heinemann, 1922. Item #06537
The Complete Saga in One Volume
A Superb First Issue of Galsworthy’s Masterpiece in Dust Jacket
GALSWORTHY, John. The Forsyte Saga. London: William Heinemann, 1922.
First edition, first issue with the folding genealogical chart opening to the right (later issues open to the left).
Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 188 x 127 mm.). xi, [1–3], 4–1104 pp. Complete with the folding genealogical chart (opening to the right, as issued).
Publisher’s green cloth over boards, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, top edge stained green. Spine with only the barest hint of fading. In the original green paper dust jacket printed in black, spine slightly darkened with minor chipping at the head. A near fine copy in an excellent dust jacket. Housed in a custom green cloth chemise and a quarter green morocco over green cloth slipcase, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments.
A Landmark of English Fiction - The great trilogy by John Galsworthy - comprising The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let - here issued for the first time in a single volume, forming one of the most enduring portraits of English upper-middle-class life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A Nobel Laureate’s Defining Work: Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, John Galsworthy achieved lasting fame through The Forsyte Saga, a sweeping examination of property and possession, social ambition, family conflict and generational change.
The character of Soames Forsyte - at once compelling and deeply flawed - remains one of the most memorable creations in modern English literature.
Price: $750.00