Laid-in is a short handwritten letter from Gawsworthy on his Wingstone headed notepaper, dated 1923 and politely refusing to review an unsolicited manuscript. A four-page preface by the author written especially for this combined edition precedes his original trilogy of Forsyte novels: 'The Man of Property' (1906), 'In Chancery' (1920) and 'To Let' (1921), plus the interludes 'Indian Summer of a Forsyte' (1918) and 'Awakening' (1920). No dust wrapper called for, but lacking the original unprinted tissue protector, but with a protective sheet of acetate now added. Small rust mark offset from a now absent paperclip to the head of the front free endpaper. Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933: Title: The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. A tiny trace of toning to the free endpapers, and some browning and spotting to the frontis tissue. A touch of wear to the leather at the backstrip ends, and a little light spotting to the fore- and bottom edge. With a tissue-protected photographic frontispiece portrait of the author and a folding five-panel family tree. Original publisher's limp calf leather, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board with a small gilt-stamped decoration. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 275 numbered copies signed by the author (this being #188). You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title: The Forsyte Saga, Awakening and To Let Author: John Galsworthy Release Date: JEBook 2596 Last Updated: FebruLanguage: English Character set encoding: UTF-8.
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