On Forsyte 'Change
London: William Heinemann, 1930. 8vo. Original green gilt-lettered cloth. A few stains on cloth, ends of spine lightly frayed. Item #410154
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Inscribed for F. Richardson very cordially by John Galsworthy Oct. 6. 1930." The novel deals mostly with the older Forsytes before the events chronicled in The Man of Property. Galsworthy states in a foreword that "They have all been written since Swan Song was finished but in place they come between the Saga and the Comedy ..." By way of explanation he writes that "It is hard to part suddenly and finally from those with whom one has lived so long; and these footnotes do really, I think, help to fill in and round out the chronicles of the Forsyte family."
Price: $150.00