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Cakes and Ale
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth titled in gilt to spine and front. First edition, variant state; "t" not missing from page 147 line 14; misprint on page 181 line four with "in" insted of "it"; missing "I" on page 63, line 22. Stott page 100-101 says this variant state was issued simultaneously as the first state and is common in the first printing, and there is no bibliographical significance to either state. Cloth faintly stained, points rubbed. Trace foxing to endpages. Sound hinges. The DJ in mylar is slightly edgeworn/rubbed/toned with a 1cm closed edge tear to rear panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
W. Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, Of Human Bondage (1915), and with The Moon and Sixpence (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured. His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, A Man of Honour (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with Sheppey (1933). His fame as a short-story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf , sub-titled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands , in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. W. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as On a Chinese Screen (1922) and Don Fernando (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer's Notebook (1949). W. Somerset Maugham became a Companion of Honour in 1954. He died in 1965.
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32051
- Title
- Cakes and Ale
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
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