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William Somerset Maugham | First Editions
1874 - 1965
See below our stock of William Somerset Maugham First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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The Razor's Edge. Synopsis.
No place (UK), 1946. [Film promotion] An original synopsis for the 20th Century Fox production of The Razor's Edge, based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Sole printing. 25 x 20cm. A two-page flyer providing cast, credits and film story with campaign artwork to front side (ideal for framing)..... More
![Item #50914 The Book-Bag [Book Bag]. William Somerset MAUGHAM](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50914.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716395407)
The Book-Bag [Book Bag].
Florence: G. Orioli, 1932. [Modern Literature] LIMITED EDITION. First separate edition. SIGNED by the author, beneath portrait frontispiece. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.109; [3], blank. Printed on handmade paper. Publisher's ivory cloth over pale blue paper-covered boards, edges untrimmed. striking two-tone dust-wrapper. Some minor dustiness and handling, bookplate of Norman..... More
Great Novelists and Their Novels.
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1948. [Modern Literature] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm) pp.[vi]; 245; [3], blank. Publisher's red cloth in typographic dust-wrapper priced at £3.00. A fine copy of the book in a very good used wrapper with some chips and rubs, some scrapes to spine..... More
Of Human Bondage.
New York: George H. Doran, 1915. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression, prior to British edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.648; [2], blank. Publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt. Contents clean, no inscriptions, inside joints pulled/cracked as usual (heavy text block), covers a little rubbed to extremities, soft vertical crease to..... More
The Summing Up.
London: William Heinemann, 1938. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm) pp.[viii]; 317; [3], blank. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Tan endpapers, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. Prelims toned, some spotting to edges, jacket with a few small chips and tears. Very good. Stott; A Bibliography..... More
Group of five biographical vols; The Pattern of Maugham, Somerset Maugham and his World; Conversations with Willie, Somerset Maugham; The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham;
London: John Murray, Jonathna Cape and others, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 2009. [Literary biographies/critiques] Hardback collection. Octavos. First editions or first thus. Publisher's cloth bindings in dust-jackets. A reader's collection showing some expected use, chips/rubs to jackets, some price clipping but no significant defects. Biographical accounts of the life of..... More
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 26, 27 and 28, complete. Also featuring: Dixon's Return [and] The Ebony Box [and] Eyes of Terror [and] Gervais of Blois [and] The Iron Maiden [and] The King and I [and] The Land Ironclads [and] Lawyer Quince [and] Liar and an Elephant [and] The Phoenix and the Carpet [and] Point of Law [and] The Country of the Blind [and] Dialstone Lane [and] Echo [and] Golden Bars [and] Sadi the Fiddler [and] Billy the King [and] The Diver's Story [and] The Girl on the Sands [and] An Irish Gentleman [and] The Messenger in Mufti [and] The Mistress of the Chateau [and] The Ring and the Lamp [and] A Splendid Rogue [and] The Temptation of Samuel Burge [and] That Brute Simmons.
London: George Newnes, July 1903 to December 1904. [Literary Magazine] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST APPEARANCES. Three volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 724; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations, including Paget's famous illustrations for the Holmes stories. Handsomely bound in brown half morocco, with raised bands, twin green..... More
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