FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970). The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories, London, 1911, square 8vo, original decorated cloth and endpapers designed by Roger Fry. With 14 other works in 15 vols. (16)

FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970).  The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1911. Square 8vo (184 x 135mm). Half title, printer's woodcut ornament, 3-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (some faint browning at gutters). Original grey decorated cloth gilt and grey pictorial endpapers designed by Roger Fry (corners lightly rubbed). The book was issued without a dust-jacket. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the author's first collection of short stories. Other copies are recorded with 4-pages of advertisements at the front, rather than with 3-pages at the end, as here. Bleiler Supernatural Fiction p.75; Kirkpatrick A5a. With 14 other works in 15 volumes, namely Charles J. Darling's Scintillae Juris ... With Frontispiece and Colophon by Frank Lockwood ... Fourth Edition (Enlarged) (London, 1889, 8vo, original parchment wrappers printed in red and black, NUMBER 72 OF 75 "LARGE PAPER" COPIES), George Meredith's Jump to Glory Jane ... Edited and Arranged by Harry Quilter (London, 1892, 8vo, plates and illustrations by Lawrence Housman, one plate detached, original pictorial paper boards by Housman, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES), Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Poems ... With Illustrations from his own Pictures and Designs. Edited with an Introduction and notes by W. M. Rossetti (London, Ellis & Elvey, 1904, 2 vols., 4to, plates by Rossetti, original parchment-backed buckram boards gilt), Edgar Saltus's Vanity Square. A Story of Fifth Avenue Life (Philadelphia, 1906, 8vo, original yellow pictorial cloth, FIRST EDITION, inscribed, "Anthony from Mummie, Feb. 1923", old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), Aldous Huxley's The Defeat of Youth & Other Poems (Oxford, Blackwell, 1918, 8vo, original green decorated wrappers, FIRST EDITION of the author's third book), Ronald Firbank's Santal (London, Grant Richards Ltd., 1921, original mauve wrappers with blue crescent, FIRST EDITION), Le Diable Amoureux, Nouvelle Espagnole (Paris, chez Camille Bloch, 1921, 8vo, etched plates by J.-E. Laboureur, original wrappers with printed label on upper wrapper, NUMBER 321 OF 575 COPIES), Francis Bacon's Essayes. Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion & Disswasion (London, 1924, "The Haslewood Books", 8vo, initials and ornaments, original parchment boards, dust-jacket, NUMBER 253 OF 975 COPIES, book label of Clarissa Churchill printed in red, not found anywhere else in this collection [illustrated]), John Clare's Madrigals & Chronicles Being newly found Poems ... Edited with a Preface and Commentary by Edmund Blunden (London, The Beaumont Press, 1924, 8vo, illustrations by Randolphe Schwabe, original buckram-backed decorated paper boards, NUMBER 377 OF 398 COPIES, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), D. H. Lawrence's Glad Ghosts (London, 1926, 8vo, original wrappers, "second impression"), Dylan Thomas's Twenty-Five Poems (London, 1936, 8vo, original boards, without the jacket, reprint, SIGNED "Clarissa Churchill, 1938"), Guillaume Apollinaire's Choix de Poésies. Introduction by C. M. Bowra (London, Horizon, 1945, 8vo, frontispiece portrait of Apollinaire by Picasso, original cloth), Jacques Prévert's Histoires. 30 Poèmes de Jacques Prévert. 30 Poèmes d' André Verdet. 31 Dessins de Mayo (Paris, 1946, 8vo, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, ONE OF 450 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "pour Clarissa Churchill, Jacques Prévert" with a small drawing of a flower around the 'o' of "Histoire") and Guillaume Apollinaire's Ombre de Mon Amour (Geneva, 1947, 8vo, plates by Juan Gris, original pictorial wrappers, inscribed [to Anthony Eden], "With my love, C[larissa], Paris, May, 1964"). (16)