Forster (E.M.) Where Angels Fear to Tread, first edition, second issue with this title listed in the (somewhat roughly opened) 32pp. advertisements at rear, a few spots, some cracking to gutter with a few gatherings proud, bookplate to front free endpaper, surface adhesion and marking from removal of labels to front free endpaper and pastedown, original cloth, light toning to spine, splitting and repair to joints, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, [Kirkpatrick A1a], Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1905; and the first American edition of the same, 8vo (2)
⁂ Published when Forster was only 26 years old, Where Angels Fear to Tread immediately established the author as a writer of note and its central theme, of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the English middle class, one that would preoccupy him for much of his career.
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