{"product_id":"the-eternal-moment","title":"The Eternal Moment","description":"\u003cp\u003eE.M. Forster. First U.S. edition. New York: Brace, Harcourt and Company, 1928. Price-clipped dust jacket (in a mylar wrapper) is in Good+ condition. Hardcover is in Very Good+ condition. No writing or markings found inside, 245 pp. Scarce in dust jacket with dedication to T.E. Lawrence. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA particularly desirable Forster first edition, notable for its dedication to T. E. Lawrence, author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1935). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book opens with the memorable dedication:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“To T. E.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the absence of anything else.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“T. E.” refers to T. E. Lawrence. Forster and Lawrence developed a literary friendship and maintained an extensive correspondence, discussing their writing and literary interests. The dedication is characteristically Forster: intimate, enigmatic, and deliberately open to interpretation. (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pbfa.org\/books\/the-eternal-moment-and-other-stories?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.pbfa.org\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe American edition was published by Harcourt, Brace \u0026amp; Company in 1928, with an initial printing of approximately 2,000 copies, followed by another 1,000 copies later that year. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe collection contains six stories, including the celebrated speculative-fiction story “The Machine Stops,” as well as “The Point of It,” “Mr. Andrews,” “Co-ordination,” “The Story of the Siren,” and “The Eternal Moment.” (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/72890?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"\u003eProject Gutenberg\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA scarce book in its original dust jacket, and especially appealing to collectors of E. M. Forster, modern first editions, speculative fiction, and books associated with T. E. Lawrence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Tree Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758010794217,"sku":"BTB01618","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0606\/1749\/0665\/files\/DB2D6D77-966C-4C25-AB42-4FDCA0E1A93B.jpg?v=1788094229","url":"https:\/\/burningtreebookshop.com\/zh\/products\/the-eternal-moment","provider":"Burning Tree Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}