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Theatre
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Doubleday. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt title/decoration to spine, red topstain. Stated first edition. Trace soil/shelfwear to cloth, glue darkened at endpages else tight and square. The DJ in mylar is chipped with shallow loss to crown, toned to spine, slightly edgeworn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short story writer, 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 spent some time at St. Thomas’ Hospital with a view to practising medicine, but left to focus exclusively on writing. In 1927, he settled in the south of France, and lived there until his death in 1965.
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32021
- Title
- Theatre
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1937
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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