1924 First American Edition – A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

This 1924 first American edition of A Passage to India isn’t just a book—it’s a bridge across continents, cultures, and centuries. Bound in its original elephant-head cover design, stamped with Grosset & Dunlap’s mark, it feels as if it still hums with the echoes of dusty trains and whispered conversations under a hot Indian sun. The top-stained green pages, hand-cut edges, and penciled underlinings tell you it’s been read with care—perhaps in search of the same answer Forster posed: “Only connect.”

E.M. Forster’s masterpiece wrestles with the great questions—friendship across divides, the failures of understanding, and whether truth is something we discover or something we create. It was both celebrated and criticized in its time, challenged for its unflinching portrayal of British colonialism and its nuanced treatment of race, religion, and power.

Here, in its first American printing, it stands as a physical reminder that books can be both objects of beauty and catalysts for conversation. Like the Marabar Caves themselves, it invites you in—promising mystery, echoing back what you bring to it.