Notes  First Edition. Crown 8vo., pp. 325 + [iii] advertisements, integral. Original red ribbed cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black, bottom page edges untrimmed. Spine extremities slightly rubbed, faint scattered foxing to preliminaries, else a near fine, bright copy, with the text fresh and clean. Winner of the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Connolly, One Hundred Modern Books, 57. Listed in The Observer's All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003]. The author's defining novel of the British Raj, which remains a brilliant study of empire. Basis for David Lean's 1984 Oscar-winning movie starring Judy Davis, Victor Banerje, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Art Malik and Saeed Jaffrey. [Kirkpatrick A10.a.]. 5000 copies printed.