Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 120

Price Realized: $ 3,720
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FORSTER, E.M. Holograph manuscript. Holograph manuscript, lacking signature, with author corrections. 4 pages, with one additional page on verso of page 3 crossed out and abandoned as early draft. With Autograph Note Signed. Condition very good, bottom (presumably blank) 1/4 portion of final manuscript page absent, folded for mailing, paper clip residue on first page of ALS and ANS. London, 1937
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Forster's forward for Alec Craig's 1937 publication The Banned Books of England (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937). He approvingly discusses Craig's book and in the course of the essay mentions several notorious obscenity trials and banned books, including Ulysses, Havelock Ellis, the "Sexual Impulse case," and the "uncertain justice" implicit in censorship of this kind, using Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom as an example of how "sometimes a book gets through [the censors]."