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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
Cakes and Ale
London: Heinemann 1930. First Edition. Bookplate. Very good copy in a used second state dust jacket. One of Maugham’s most popular works. Heinemann unknown books
Bookseller reference : 10678J
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Maugham W. Somerset
Cakes and Ale or Skeleton in the Cupboard
Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Lacks jacket. Spine faded all spine gilt lost front hinge just beginning to loosen ink name on front endpaper. 1930 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 308 4 pp. 8vo. Original black cloth. "Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse and unlikely first wife Rosie. The lively loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime but now her memory casts an embarrassing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise witty deeply satisfying Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2272131
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Maugham W. Somerset
Cakes And Ale Or The Skeleton In The Cupboard
Garden City: Garden City Publishing 1930. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Early reprint edition of this novel by Maugham featuring Rosie the barmaid and the famous Drifield. A very good example in black boards with gilt lettering to spine which is still quite clean and readable. There is a handsome bookplate of one Ralph D. Heartman afixed to the inside front pastedown. Otherwise a clean very good or better copy. In the scarce unclipped dustwrapper which is deeply faded at spine color and has been mended with tape on the verso. Still a handsome example of this early reprint edition. <br/><br/> Garden City Publishing hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 22872
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
Cakes and ale or the skeleton in the cupboard
London: William Heinemann 1930. First edition 8vo pp. 4 270; fore-edges spotted half title and title page slightly foxed else a near fine copy in the dust jacket which shows slight wear at top of spine and two old tape stains on the versos of the jacket flaps. Page 147 is in state B no priority. Toole Stott A40a. <br/><br/> William Heinemann unknown books
Bookseller reference : 33998
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MAUGHAM W. Somerset
Cakes and Ale or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
London William Heinemann Ltd. 1953. 1953. Limited edition. 8vo. Lithograph frontispiece portrait and decorations by Graham Sutherland. 8 page preface by Maugham and facsimiles of four pages of the manuscript. Original 1/2 white morocco over dark blue morocco t.e.g. uncut. Original black cloth slipcase. Fine. No other signatures or bookplates. 255 pages. Number 81 0f 1000 numbered copies signed by Maugham and Sutherland on the limitation page. Also laid in loose are two vintage newspaper articles about Graham Sutherland. Stott A40d. Signed by Authors. Hardcover. Fine. London, William Heinemann Ltd. [1953]. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 226806
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Maugham W. Somerset
Cakes and Ale or the Skeleton in the Cupboard
London: Heinemann 1930. First edition first state with won instead of won't in line 14 of page 147. 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Tape repairs to the inside head and tail of spine else near fine. First edition first state with won instead of won't in line 14 of page 147. 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. After Of Human Bondage Cakes and Ale is probably Maugham's finest novel and certainly one of his most popular. Of it Maugham wrote: "The book I like best is Cakes and Ale. It was an amusing book to write". Notes the author's biographer: "His output had its ups and downs. Cakes and Ale was one of the ups. He went on writing for another thirty years but never matched it in style or structure. It was a pity that the scandal surrounding the models for the main characters drew the attention of the literary community away from the book's real merit." Today of course it is those models who provide the fun: Driffield the Grand Old Man of Letters Thomas Hardy and the writer-on-the-make Alroy Kear a highly unflattering portrait of the novelist Hugh Walpole who never forgave Maugham for writing his most malicious--but also his funniest--book. Stott A40 Heinemann unknown books
Bookseller reference : 214009
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Maugham W. Somerset
Cakes and Ale or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
London: Heinemann 1930. First edition variant state of p. 147 with the 't' not mssing no precedence established -- "both states issued simultaneously" according to Stott. 4 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original publisher's blue cloth. Very good in somewhat worn and soiled dust jacket with small chip from head a few small tears. First edition variant state of p. 147 with the 't' not mssing no precedence established -- "both states issued simultaneously" according to Stott. 4 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. After Of Human Bondage Cakes and Ale is probably Maugham's finest novel and certainly one of his most popular. Of it Maugham wrote: "The book I like best is Cakes and Ale. It was an amusing book to write". Notes the author's biographer: "His output had its ups and downs. Cakes and Ale was one of the ups. He went on writing for another thirty years but never matched it in style or structure. It was a pity that the scandal surrounding the models for the main characters drew the attention of the literary community away from the book's real merit." Today of course it is those models who provide the fun: Driffield the Grand Old Man of Letters Thomas Hardy and the writer-on-the-make Alroy Kear a highly unflattering portrait of the novelist Hugh Walpole who never forgave Maugham for writing his most malicious--but also his funniest--book. Stott A40a Heinemann unknown books
Bookseller reference : 59498
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Maugham W. Somerset
Cakes and Ale or The Skeleton in the Cupboard; With An Original Lithograph and Decorations By Graham Sutherland
London: William Heinemann LTD 1954. Signed Limited Edition. Full leather. Fine. Signed limited edition of Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham. Octavo 255pp full morocco white spine navy blue boards gilt band. Top edge gilt uncut acetate protective cover. Original publishers slipcase fine. This is a limited edition copy signed by W. Somerset Maugham and artist Graham Sutherland signed on the limitation page. This is number 853 of 1000 signed copies. A fine copy. This was published to commemorate the 80th birthday of Maugham. Cakes and Ale was originally published in 1930. William Heinemann LTD unknown books
Bookseller reference : 429
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Maugham W. Somerset
CAKES AND ALE. Or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
1930. London: William Heinemann 1930. Original blue cloth with dust jacket. First Edition of perhaps his best novel a witty and delicious comedy of literary England in the early decades of the 20th century told in the first person by a novelist Ashenden. The pushing and self-advertising novelist Alroy Kear wants to get at the details of the early life of Edward Driffield an eminent novelist whose biography Kear has been commissioned to write. Ashenden had known Driffield and his first wife Rosie a barmaid; Rosie the skeleton in the cupboard of Driffield's life is Kear's stumbling block -- he is not honest enough to be given the facts that Ashenden gives the reader. Rosie is a wonderful character -- affectionate amoral and generous. The narrator is obviously Maugham but he denied what so many readers were quick to conclude: that Alroy Kear was founded on Hugh Walpole and Edward Driffield on Thomas Hardy. CGEL This copy lacks the "t" of "won't" on line 14 of p. 147 which is often regarded as the "first state"; however as Toole Stott points out this may well be merely a matter of type slippage during the print run and the "t" could have dropped off during the run or it could have been inserted during the run -- in either event both "states" were then issued simultaneously to the public. This volume is in near-fine condition spine very slightly faded a trace of edge-wear; the dust jacket is very good minor soil and edge-wear. Toole Stott A41. <br/><br/> hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 14311
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Maugham W. Somerset
CAKES AND ALE: OR THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD
New York: Doubleday Doran & Co 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 308 pages; G; fully bound in black cloth spine and front cover have heavily embossed lettering; binding has wear along the top and bottom edges with minor fraying at the bottom of the spine and minor chipping on the bottom fore edge corners and on the upper front cover has rubbing throughout has minor bumping on the fore edge corners; pages have dust build up along the top edge have minor detachment in several locations have minor blotching throughout; shelved HC Fiction. 1316669. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Doubleday, Doran & Co hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 1316669
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
Cakes and Ale: Or the Skeleton in the Cupboard
Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1930. First American Edition First Printing. Pencil former ownership signature. Mild vertical creasing to spine cloth. Tiny bookstore label on the front pastedown else a square sharp-corned very good plus copy without dust jacket. Doubleday, Doran hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 15854J
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
Cakes and Ale: Or the Skeleton in the Cupboard
Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1930. First American Edition First Printing. This copy belonged to song lyricist Ira Gershwin and is signed by him on the front flyleaf. Some flaking of lettering on spine cloth some light rubbing to boards a touch of fraying at top of spine corners slightly bumped else a very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some tiny chipping and general light wear. Doubleday, Doran hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 15852J
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Maugham W. Somerset
Cakes and Ale: or the Skeleton in the Cupboard
London: William Heinemann Ltd 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first state. Page 147 has error "won'" issued simultaneously with corrected word "won't" no priority as per Stott. 270 pp. Original navy cloth with gilt and black lettering. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket: 7/6 net on darkened spine panel with small stain and chipping at ends a few tiny edge closed tears and some rubbing and light toning. Boards a bit bumped. A novel of English lit and snobbery which was first serialized in the magazine Harper's Bazaar. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 160918014
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Maugham W. Somerset
Cakes and Ale: with a sepcial introduction by the author
New York: Modern Library 1950. Hardcover. xii 272p. introduction very good Modern Library reprint with new introduction in green cloth boards and price-clipped dj. ML 270. Modern Library hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 261183
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Maugham W. Somerset
CATALINA
1948. Nicoll Gordon. A Romance. London: William Heinemann 1948. Original red cloth lettered in silver with dust jacket. First Edition of Maugham's last novel published two months before the American one. Set in Spain during the Inquisition it told of a crippled girl to whom the Blessed Virgin appears in a vision. She will be healed by one of three brothers the one who has best served God. One brother is a bishop another is a soldier and the third is a baker. It comes as no surprise that the humble panadero succeeds in healing the girl. In the slackness of the writing the descent into cliche and the contrived plot devices CATALINA betrayed Maugham's declining powers. It was a feeble book with which to end a fifty-year career as a novelist. Morgan This copy has its lettering in silver the publisher started out using silver but finding it unsatisfactory switched to imitation gold -- "both variations were delivered to the bookshops simultaneously". It is a fine bright copy; the colorful jacket with a wraparound pictorial scene by Gordon Nicoll is nearly fine as well spine a bit faded front flap price-clipped. Toole Stott A67a. <br/><br/> hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 13189
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Maugham W. Somerset
CATALINA
Paris: Librairie Plon 1950. Printed wrappers. First edition in French translated by Helene Claireau. One of eleven copies hors commerce in addition to one hundred numbered copies on Alfa. Near fine unopened in glassine wrapper. Librairie Plon unknown books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT39363
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Maugham W. Somerset
CATALINA. A Romance
New York: Doubleday & Company 1948. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. VG/Abt VG edgeworn/sp sunned. 8vo. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Company hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 6902
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
CHOICE OF KIPLING'S PROSE
1952. MAUGHAM W. Somerset. A CHOICE OF KIPLING'S PROSE. London: Macmillan & Co. 1952. First edition inscribed not signed by Maugham. xxix 338 pp. 8vo. red cloth stamped in gilt to spine top edge red. Internally fine with front hinge cracked bumped lower corners shelfwear to edges of boards and spine and light staining at bottom of spine lower board and bottom text edge not affecting reading surface. Good plus in very tired dust jacket. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 57533
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Maugham W. Somerset
Christmas Holiday
New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 314. Boards lightly rubbed; spine tips and corners gently bumped; lacking FFEP; bookplate on front paste-down; ownership signature on half-title page. Dust jacket chipped and torn along the edges; rear panel rubbed; price-clipped. A tight clean copy. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
Bookseller reference : JC10730
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Maugham W. Somerset
Christmas Holiday
New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1939. Black cloth with gilt lettering and red and gilt lined spine decoration. Top edge stained red. Head of spine frayed boards soiled endpapers with offsetting. Paper adhering to foreedge of upper board. Dust jacket chipped with paper loss on all edges. A fine novel by the great Maugham. First Edition. Cloth. Poor/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Doubleday, Doran & Company Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WN28347
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MAUGHAM W. Somerset
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
1939. MAUGHAM W. Somerset. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. London & Toronto: William Heinemann 1939. First edition. 8vo. blue cloth lettered in gilt. Bookplate. A slight skew to the binding and some mild dust soil to top-edge; front hinge starting at fly-leaf. Pages are slightly age-browned at perimeters. A very good clean solid copy in a mildly soiled dust jacket with a 3 1/2" edge-tear at the front panel and some small nicks and chips to the edges elsewhere. Stott A55. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 64331
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Maugham W. Somerset
Cosmopolitans
Doubleday 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A near fine first edition so stated on copyright page in a near fine dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Doubleday hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 1505831
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Maugham W. Somerset
Cosmopolitans
Doubleday 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A near fine first edition so stated on the copyright page in a near fine dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Doubleday hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 1506082
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
Cosmopolitans
Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1936. First Edition - American. Fine clean copy in bright dust jacket with a tiny bit of subtle repair by an expert paper conservationist. Doubleday Doran unknown books
Bookseller reference : 11792J
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MAUGHAM W. Somerset
Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories
London: William Heinemann Ltd 1936. First U.K. Edition. Third Issue with half-title page and pp.5-6 cancel leaves the former listing 19 non-dramatic works on the reverse Ah King being the last followed by the Plays. Octavo 19.75cm; dark blue linen with titles stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; brown topstain; dustjacket; xiii 3 302 2pp. Hint of sunning to spine topstain slightly dulled with mild discoloration to endpapers and foxing to text edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7/6 net edgeworn with sunning to spine several nicks and short tears with a stain to lower front flap fold and scattered foxing overall; Very Good. Collection of 29 short stories. The American edition precedes the British by one month. STOTT A51a. William Heinemann Ltd unknown books
Bookseller reference : 23365
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MAUGHAM W. Somerset
DON FERNANDO
GC DOUBLEDAY 1935. NO DUST JACKET FIRST AMERCAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. GC, DOUBLEDAY, 1935 unknown books
Bookseller reference : 4780
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MAUGHAM W. Somerset
Don Fernando or Variations On Some Spanish Themes
London: William Heinemann Ltd 1935. First Trade Edition. First Impression one of 5000 copies. Octavo 21cm; black cloth with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; iv2684pp. Wear at crown some erosion to cloth with resulting board exposure at upper edge of rear cover and some trivial dust-soil to text edges; Very Good or better with the pictorial elements entirely unrubbed. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 8/6 net lightly shelfworn with a small loss to upper left corner at crown and several closed tears; Very Good or better. STOTT A49a. William Heinemann Ltd unknown books
Bookseller reference : 51373
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
Don Fernando. Or Variations on Some Spanish Themes
Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1935. First Edition - American. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light fading to the top edge of the front panel and the spine with a few tiny tears and nicks. Attractive copy. An exploration of the “Golden Age†of Spanish culture history art and spirit. Doubleday, Doran unknown books
Bookseller reference : 11090E
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Maugham W. Somerset
East of Suez
New York; 1922: George H. Doran Company. First American Edition. Small Octavo. 138pp. A play set in Peking in seven scenes.Bound in gray paper covered boards paper spine label spine and edge a bit darkened previous owner's name. A very nice copy. George H. Doran Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 006972
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
East of Suez. Great Stories of the Tropics
New York: Avon 1948. First Edition. Paperback original. Very good plus copy with just a hint of used in printed wrappers. A collection of twelve short stories by W. Somerset Maugham each set in a tropical locale where as the text on the rear cover affirms: “the passions run high and the bonds of civilization run thin.†Avon paperback books
Bookseller reference : 13574E
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MAUGHAM W. Somerset
ENCORE
London: Heinemann 1951. First Edition. Small 8vo pp. 165. Stories by Maugham. Screen adaptation by T.E.B. Clarke Arthur Macrae and Eric Ambler. Frontispiece and three illustrations. VG. The Ant and the Grasshopper Winter Cruise and Gigolo and Gigolette. Heinemann unknown books
Bookseller reference : 26141
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Maugham W. Somerset
First American Edition of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence
Maugham W. Somerset. The Moon and Sixpence :New York George H. Doran:1919 8vo publisher's bright green cloth stamped in black. First American Edition. Stott's first state of binding with Maugham correctly spelled although no priority established. A handsome copy. Stott A22c. Light rubbing to edges; uneven dust soiling to top edge; some toning to endpapers; extremely clean copy in near fine condition lacking dust jacket. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 15895
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Maugham W. Somerset
First Person Singular
London: William Heinemann 1931. Hardcover. Good. First Edition. Bookplate on front pastedown boards slightly splayed with some wear to the extremities else about very good in a darkened and rubbed jacket that has a dampstain to the top of the spine. <br/><br/> William Heinemann hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 48599
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Maugham W. Somerset
For Services Rendered. A Play in Three Acts
New York: Doubleday Doran 1933. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. viii 87 pp. Original black cloth with gilt ruling to spine. Mild rubbing to bottom edge of front board else fine in an attractive jacket with a few small chips. Stott A45 b. Doubleday, Doran hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 19901
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
For Services Rendered. A Play In Three Acts
London: Heinemann 1932. First Edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears and a slightly darkened spine. Heinemann unknown books
Bookseller reference : 9101E
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Maugham W. Somerset
FRANCE AT WAR
New York: Doubleday Doran and Co 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 111 pages; VG/VG-; spine is brown with red and black lettering; dust jacket is in a mylar covering has price uncut "$1.00". has minor shelf wear with occasional small closed tears along the top and bottom edges has occasional chipping; binding has minimal shelf wear; pages have slight age toning; shelved France. 1331057. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Doubleday, Doran and Co hardcover books
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MAUGHAM W. Somerset
GREAT NOVELISTS AND THEIR NOVELS; Essays on the ten greatest novels of the world and the men and women who wrote them
Philadelphia: Winston 1948. First Edition. Robert W. Arnold. 8vo pp. 245. Illustrated with drawings of the novelists by Robert W. Arnold. Spine slightly wrinkled o/w a nice copy. Winston unknown books
Bookseller reference : 29775
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Maugham W. Somerset
LIZA OF LAMBETH
London: William Heinemann 1947. Jubilee Edition. Octavo; VG-/G; Red jacket spine with silver lettering; Bound in quarter leather with red patterned boards; SIGNED by Maugham and dated 935 out of an edition of 1000; Jacket has wear to the edges discolored at the spine now covered by mylar brodart; Boards are straight with some minor bumping and wear; Deckle-cut pages are age toned but clean; some foxing to end papers; Shelved case 2 ; 136 numbered pages; RD consign. 1273552. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. William Heinemann unknown books
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
Liza of Lambeth
London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd 1923. Later printing. Signed presentation copy from Maugham to Harpo Marx. Inscribed by the author: “For Harpo Marx in memory of the swimming pool from W.S. Maugham.†From the library of Harpo Marx the great clown of the Marx Brothers comedy team and his wife actress Susan Fleming Marx former member of the Ziegfeld Follies and star of early talking films like Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields. Very good copy with a trace of darkening to the endpapers slight fading to the cloth at the spine and minor signs of use without dust jacket. With a charming bookplate illustrated by Susan Marx with a drawing of Harpo in his comic character which reads: “FROM THE LIBRARY OF HARPO & SUSAN MARX.†Harpo Marx first became friends with Maugham in the late 1920s when Alexander Woollcott took Harpo to Maugham’s home the Villa Mauresque on the French Riviera. Maugham’s inscription refers to an incident from that visit recorded in Marx’s memoirs ‘Harpo Speaks’ where during a tour of Maugham’s upstairs master bedroom Harpo stripped off his clothes and dove off the balcony into Maugham’s pool. Woollcott a bit startled looked to Maugham’s reaction. Maugham then proceeded to take off his clothes and dove in to join him. Harpo also records a time a the Broadway premiere of the play Dead End in 1936 he spotted Maugham seated several rows behind him in the audience. “I crawled on on all fours monkey-fashion across the tops of the seats.when Maugham said ‘Terribly sorry I haven’t a banana for you Harpo.’†T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 18446E
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MAUGHAM W. Somerset
LIZA OF LAMBETH
London: Heinemann 1947. Jubilee Edition. 8vo pp. 137. Designed by Stanley Morison and printed at the Windmill Press. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author. Bound in cloth backed patterend boards in original little torn acetate. A very good tight clean copy. The author's first book a novel. Heinemann unknown books
Bookseller reference : 33558
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MAUGHAM W. Somerset
Mr. Ashenden: Agent Secret
Paris Les Editions de France 1930. First edition in French. Small 8vo. Translated into French by Madame. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Paris, Les Editions de France, paperback books
Bookseller reference : 225626
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Maugham W. Somerset
Of Human Bondage
New York: George H. Doran Company 1915. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first issue. No colophon on copyright page error "help" on 257 line 4 uncorrected. vi 648 pp. Original green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. A Very Good copy lacking the jacket with a cocked spine wear at tips a little faint staining to cloth former owner's name written in blue colored pencil on paste down. The British author's masterwork which inspired three films. George H. Doran Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 140939591
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Maugham W. Somerset
Of Human Bondage
London: William Heinemann Ltd 1915. First British Edition. Very Good. First British edition first impression. Error "help" on 257 uncorrected as was apparently the case in the entire first printing; state with ads at rear probably the first as per Stott Maughaminia Books #14. 648 16 ads pp. Original bluish green cloth lettered in gilt. A Very Good unsophisticated copy with clean cloth and sharp bright gilt; hinges at front and rear starting textblock somewhat fallen a little foxing at edges and light wear; pages still quite bright. Housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase with leather title label lettered in gilt spot of wear to label. The British author's masterwork which inspired three films. Uncommon in such nice shape in its British edition which followed the American edition by a single day. William Heinemann Ltd unknown books
Bookseller reference : 140937625
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
Of human bondage
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co 1936. First illustrated edition limited to 751 copies signed by Maugham and the illustrator Randolph Schwabe this no. 135; 8vo pp. 2 x 2 684; 24 plates; original beige cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine t.e.g. A fine bright copy without the dust jacket and in a box split at 2 joints and with old tape repairs. This edition contains a new foreword by Maugham. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Doran & Co hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 42302
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE
NY: The Limited Editions Club 1938. First thus. Two volume set limited to 1500 numbered copies printed at The Printing-Office of the Yale University Press with etchings by John Sloan. Signed by Sloan on the limitation page as issued. Copy #516. Cloth-coverd boards with leather spine lables with gilt titles. Cloth-coverd slipcase with printed label. Both volumes' spines foxed with toning; slipcase has a small faint soil spot. Very Good condition in a Near Fine slipcase. Signed by Artist. Hard Cover. Very Good/Not Issued. Illus. by John Sloan. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. The Limited Editions Club Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 111029
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
OF HUMAN BONDAGE
1915. MAUGHAM W. Somerset. OF HUMAN BONDAGE. London: William Heinemann 1915. Small 8vo. blue-green cloth stamped in gilt. First English Edition. Signed presentation from Maugham on front black page: "For Ingle Barr This is a novel not an autobiography though much in it is autobiographical more is pure invention. W. Somerset Maugham. 28 August 1957." With Barr's personal bookplate on the front pastedown and with the original shipping address laid in. One of Maugham's most famous works and basis for three movie adaptations. Enclosed in a custom-made slipcase. $7000.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 12995
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MAUGHAM W. Somerset
Of Human Bondage
First English edition. Octavo. Full medium blue morocco by Bayntun-Riviere spine with raised bands and gilt ruled compartments all edges extra gilt. Fine. Stott A21b. Printed by the Ballantyne Hanson & Co. Press London and Edinburgh. With the misprint on page 257 "help" in line 4. William Heinemann hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 300577
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MAUGHAM W. Somerset
Of Human Bondage
Washington DC Library of Congress 1946. 1946. Dedication program issued when Maugham presented the manuscript to the Library of Congress. Printed in red and black. With one page of the manuscript reproduced. Together with a ticket to Maugham's lecture on the occasion. See Stott A65. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Washington, DC, Library of Congress, 1946. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 301824
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MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET
Of Human Bondage
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company 1934. Motion picture tie-in edition with a wonderful pictorial wraparound band. This book was issued to coincide with the release of the 1934 John Cromwell directed film version of the novel starring Leslie Howard Bette Davis Frances Dee Kay Johnson Reginald Denny Alan Hale and Reginald Owen. The wraparound band is four and a half inches wide and illustrated with black & white still photographs from the film. Across the top of the front panel portion is printed: “W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM’S GREAT NOVEL from which the LESLIE HOWARD Picture was taken - 766 Pages - THE COMPLETE STORY.†The photographs on the front panel portion is a collage of scenes showing Leslie Howard twice in three photographs with Bette Davis and Frances Dee. On the spine portion is a large close-up portrait of Leslie Howard’s head. The book itself is a very good copy with some flaking to the gilt-stamping in a very good dust jacket with some chipping mostly at head of spine some tears and some edge creasing. The dust jacket is yellow and has a quote from Theodore Dreiser “It sings it has color. It has rapture. In viewing it one finds nothing to criticize or regret.†Very scarce in this form. Garden City Publishing Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 11684J
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE WITH A DIGRESSION ON THE ART OF FICTION AN ADDRESS .
Washington: Library of Congress /GPO 1946. Printed boards. A trace of faint sunning to the lower edge of the upper board otherwise about fine with the event menu creased and a bit tanned at edges laid in. First edition. One of five hundred copies signed by Maugham from a total edition of eight hundred. The address was delivered at the formal presentation of the manuscript of the novel to the Library of Congress. Library of Congress /GPO] hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT72262
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