London: Chapman & Hall, 1893. 8vo. [xii], 4-232 pp., plus [10] pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Title and half-title in red and black. Original green cloth binding illustrating birds on branches on front cover; front and back free endpapers chipped along edges with offsetting on half-title and last page. Generally..... More
London: William Heineman, 1928. 8vo. [viii], 304 pp. FIRST EDITION. Blue publisher’s cloth, without the dust-jacket, some light wear to corners and extremities of spine, minor bumping to top cover; some light browning and offset to half-title. From the library of Florence and Edward Kaye, with their morocco bookplate, contemporary..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. 8vo. [viii], 308 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Turquoise publisher's cloth, black & gold label to top cover and spine, cloth is quite sunned, with some light soiling. An uncut copy signed by the author on fly-leaf, ownership inscription of W. Corbin Douglass dated..... More
London: William Heineman, [1939]. 8vo. [vi], 289 pp. FIRST EDITION. Blue publisher’s cloth, in original blue, turquoise and white dust-jacket, two small soil marks to top cover, a couple of small chips to dust-jacket. First edition. This novel also appeared in installments in the August-November, 1939 issues of Redbook Magazine..... More
London: William Heineman, 1921. 8vo. [iv], 103 pp., FIRST EDITION. including half-title. Original printed wrappers, brown lettering to covers and spine, with publisher’s advertisements to verso of top wrapper and both sides of bottom wrapper; without the binder’s leaf before the first blank. Small slip tipped onto verso of title..... More
New York, Los Angeles: Samuel French, [1938]. 8vo. 216 pp. Original tan wrappers, small dampstain at foot of top wrapper, minor tear to rear fly-leaf. American acting edition. Maugham dedicated this play to the lead actress, Ethel Barrymore, despite the fact that on opening night she forgot her lines due..... More
London: William Heineman, [1935]. 8vo. [iv], 269 pp. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Black publisher’s cloth, in original black and gold dust-jacket; minor foxing, otherwise an excellent copy. First trade edition of Maugham’s second book about Spain. Apparently Maugham felt that his original impressions of Spain were rather conventional and typical of..... More
[Washington]: [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1946. 8vo. 16, [2] pp. Original blue-gray printed boards. Signed by the author on the fly-leaf, ownership inscription to front paste-down. Limited edition, first state, with the second blank conjugate to the colophon. This is the lecture given by Maugham when he presented the manuscript..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. 8vo. [viii], 187 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original black publisher’s cloth, paper labels to top cover and spine; uncut. First edition. This play was written after Maugham had made the decision to give up writing plays. He apparently had a few..... More
New York: House of Books, Ltd., 1944. 8vo. [ii], 56, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original matte blue cloth. A fine copy signed and numbered by the author. From the Rothschild Library. First edition, number 231 of 300 printed. This is the original text of Maugham’s short story about the war..... More
