A Writer's Notebook

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering in black panel on spine, top edge gilt; pp. xvi, 367. First edition stated. Number 797 from an edition limited to 1000 copies, signed by Maugham on the limitation page.

MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. A Writer's Notebook. A Novel. 8vo. Original ¼ vellum-backed black cloth, spine label. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1949. First Edition. First Issue. Limited to 1000 copies signed by Maugham. This is copy No. 891. Binding slightly stained; former owner's signature on title page; o/w a fine copy.

NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949. AUTOGRAPHED EDITION LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND NUMBERED AND SIGNED COPIES. This is copy 308 numbered and signed in blue ink by Maugham. Original red cloth over bevelled edge boards. With the original acetate dust jacket. Top edge bright gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. This is a bright and fine copy with the pages still… Read more about this item

WILLIAM HEINEMANN, LONDON, 1949 A SIGNED LIMITED EDITION BY MAUGHAM BEING NUMBER 656 OF 1000 COPIES ONLY, HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH ORIGINAL VELLUM SPINE, ORIGINAL CARD SLIPCASE. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 16 + 349 PAGES. SOME GENERAL WEAR & MARKS TO SLIPCASE, FEW MINOR MARKS TO VELLUM SPINE, MARK TO FRONT BLANK ENDPAPER… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. A Writer's Notebook "shows [Maugham] at his best, as detached, observant, and affecting a pose of worldliness even in his apparent private thoughts" (Drabble 631).

NY: Doubleday. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Red buckram titled in gilt, TEG. Limited edition #608/1000 signed by Maugham to the limitation page. Fingerprint to ffep, tiny stain to rear cover else a square, tight copy. The acetate DJ has a tear to top corner, slightly over an inch long. Housed in… Read more about this item

Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1949. First American Trade Edition; First Printng. Hardcover. 0405078323 . ; Black cloth cover has pushed in spine caps and a couple of abrasions to the front cover otherwise pristine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Red stained top edge and matching red end papers and… Read more about this item

William Heinemann LTD, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. The dust jacket is slightly edge worn, with a closed tear at the back and small chips on the top and bottom edges of the spine but is handsomely preserved in cellophane. The boards are still beautifully preserved with slight edge wear. The front end page is signed by… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann. Fine with no dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter vellum over blue cloth, leather spine label, TEG. Limited edition #87 signed by Maugham to the limitation page. Minor toning to the vellum, tiny bump to heel else clean and tight. Housed in the publisher's VG slipcase. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10"… Read more about this item

Doubleday, 1949 The first edition after the publication of the signed limited edition. DJ is good only with chipping mostly to top, rubbing and soiling. Price intact and protected in mylar. Book has previous owner's writing on front endpaper, is a bit cocked and bumped to corners. Slight soiling to first page but clean and tight otherwise.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. 367 pages; frontispiece a b&w portrait of the author. Maugham's reduction of 15 volumes of notes. "I jotted down all kinds of thoughts and emotions of a personal nature ... to be a storehouse of materials for future use and nothing else." A terrific and amusing mine of creativity. Small notes in… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1949. Bound in the publishers black cloth with silver title lettering and decoration to spine and front board. This is the first impression of the first edition of one of Maugham's most important and relevant titles. In it we literally get a profound and rare insight into the workings of one of the greatest minds of the short… Read more about this item

William Heinemann Ltd. & The Book Society Ltd, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Black covers are a little worn and marked. Silver lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Wear to corners and spine ends. Occasional light foxing to prelims, main body of text is clean. Previous owners name hand written… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1949. Limited edition 1 of 1000 SIGNED BY MAUGHAM. Slip case very good with some very light chipping to the edges.. By the Author. Limited. Original Red Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

William Heinemann Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. First Edition. 349 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with decorations. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1949. "First Edition, First Printing". Hardcover. Very Good +/No Dustjacket. Black Cloth Covers with dulled gilt lettering to spine; Red Endpapers; right book edge is rough-cut; top book edge is stained red by publisher and now somewhat faded; book interior is clean and tight; 8vo; 367 pages 1.63#; P3;

Toronto: William Heinemann. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's silver-titled black cloth. First Canadian presumed. Slight insecting to cloth, mild staining to block edge, points bumped. Sound and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, toned, chipped, damped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 349 pages .

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Compan, January 1949. First Edition. Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} In clear mylar jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering in black rectangle & decorative borderline devices along spine. Tightly bound. Deckled fore-edge. Gilt stained textblock top edge. 'This edition is limited… Read more about this item

Heinemann, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 8x6x1. 1949 Hardcover Edition. Definite handling wear to DJ.(see my pics) Pages unmarked. Deckled edge.

HEINEMANN Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited issue of 1000 numbered copies signed by Maugham on the limitation page. Copy #878. Quater vellum with cloth-covered boards, topedge gilt, spine label with gilt lettering and embossed colophon on front board. Paper-covered slipcase. A near fine first in sunned slipcase very good.