The Forsyte Saga

HARDBACK ?SIXTY-PLUS YEARS OLD? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Date of Publication: 1949 (1922)* Publisher: Reprint Society. * Binding and cover condition: Olive-green cloth, gilt title & border to black spine label. No bumps or rubs, minimal sunning to top edge. VG+* Jacket condition: Mid green paper dust wrapper. Orange, maroon and white design & title to spine and face, showing no shelf price. Considerable shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. Spine slightly faded. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Family trees to end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only very slight reading wear, no marks to text, top edge coloured but faded, small amount of offsetting to end-papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 720 pp. text. i pp. blank page at rear.* Description: The Forsyte Saga was in fact written in 9 parts, this is volume 1 which contains the first three, subtitled The Man Of Property, In Chancery and To Let. Soames Forsyte is a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife Irene. A pillar of the late Victorian upper middle class, materially wealthy, his appears to be a golden existence endowed with all the necessary possessions for a 'Man of Property', but beneath this very proper exterior lies a core of unhappiness and brutal relationships. The marriage of Soames and Irene disintegrates in bitter recrimination, creating a feud within the family that will have far-reaching consequences.* A NEAR FINE copy with jacket faults reducing it to VG*