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Cakes and Ale
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /No Jacket
- Seller
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HINDHEAD, Surrey, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Heinemann. Blue, cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Black device on the bottom corner of the front cover and Publisher's name in black at the foot of the spine. The pre-publication correction has been made to page 147 of this copy. Previously owned by John Forster-Cooper (his name rubber-stamped on the front free endpaper), some initials neatly written in faded ink on the half-title page. The covers have some light marks on them and minor wear at the extremities. A few foxing spots on the preliminaries and last few pages. A chance to own a first edition of this famous book at a reasonable price. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 1930.
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
- Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002859
- Title
- Cakes and Ale
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 7.5" x 5".
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Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
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HINDHEAD, Surrey
About Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
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