Anonymity. An Enquiry.

First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. [iv], 23, [4, blank]. Pale green stiff card covers, titled in black, with a design by Vanessa Bell to front. No. XII in "The Hogarth Essays" series. First separate edition of an essay initially published in November 1925 in the short-lived British literary journal, The Calendar of Modern Letters and in The Atlantic Monthly. 1/2,000 copies printed.

Boards age toned at edges, slightly soiled to back panel, lightly foxed at joints and margins, a couple of pencil underlinings on p. 10, else Very Good.

The merits of authorship vs. anonymity as addressed from a strictly literary perspective. Here Forster denounces the importance given to the author's personality or biography to the detriment of "the creative impulse".

[Kirkpatrick A11; NCBEL IV, 438; Woolmer 61; Forster, E. M. "Anonymity. An Enquiry." The Calendar of Modern Letters 2:9 (November 1925): 145–56; The Atlantic Monthly (November 1925): 588–95]