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Cakes and Ale
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann. Fine with no dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Cream and navy calf with leather spine label, TEG. Limited edition # 444 of 1000 signed by Maugham and artist Graham Sutherland to the limitation page. Faint trace of rubbing to leather else fine condition in lightly worn original slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
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.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32060
- Title
- Cakes and Ale
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine Label
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