New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. Pp. viii, [119]. Illustrated with 118 full-page cartoons by Peter Arno in black and white, plus a frontispiece photographic portrait of Arno). Pictorial paper-covered boards. Four-page preface by W. Somerset Maugham about Peter Arno. Edges of the boards are lightly..... More
![Item #562200 Happy New Year! [story in]: Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan –...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/562200.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694718499)
New York: International Magazine Company, 1934. Softcover. Quarto magazine in wrappers. 174pp. Lacking the rear wrapper, corners curled, about very good. Containing Part Two of "Thank You, Jeeves!" by P.G. Wodehouse; "Mickey Mouse, Meet Your Maker!" by Sidney Skolsky; "Bread Upon the Waters" by Edith Wharton, and more. More
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1923). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Blue cloth with printed paper spine label. Label a bit toned, else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Author and critic Barrett H. Clark's copy with his ownership initials. The play adaptation of Somerset Maugham's story "Miss Thompson" which was..... More
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(Tokyo): Gakuseisha, (1961). Hardcover. First edition, stated "Student Society Edition." 12mo. 248, [2] pp. Text in English, with notes in Japanese and a English-Japanese glossary by Teiji Kitagawa. Illustrated with author photos. Boards trifle sunned at the spine and edges, tiny shallow abrasion on the lower board, about fine in..... More
![Item #513967 Marie Tempest 1885-1935 [cover title]. Theatre Royal Drury Lane. In the Presence of...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/513967.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1720810540)
(London): Daily Telegraph/ (Printed by Suttley & Silverlock Ltd.), 1935. Hardcover. First edition, clothbound issue. Illustrated reproducing artwork by George Sheringham, William Nicholson, and others. Quarto. 38pp. Blue cloth tri-fold portfolio bound with silk bookmark. Endpapers and a few pages of text are moderately foxed and a bit spotted, else..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1955. Hardcover. First American edition. Boards slightly bowed, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine, rubbing, and a small chip on the rear panel. Maugham on Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Dickens, Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Stendhal and others. More
London: William Heinemann, 1928. Hardcover. First edition. One corner a little bumped, very slight rubbing at the extremities, very near fine in just about fine dust jacket with some tiny nicks, mostly at the crown. Basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film *The Secret Agent* with Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, and..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928. Hardcover. First American edition. A touch rubbed at the spine ends, else very near fine lacking the dust jacket. Basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film *The Secret Agent* with Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, and Peter Lorre. A pretty copy of this title listed..... More
New York: The Modern Library, (1957). Hardcover. First edition thus. Selected and with an introduction by John Beercroft. Topstain with a touch of sunning, near fine in a lightly soiled very good dust jacket with red lettering on spine faded, two small spots on spine and modest edgewear. Seventeen short..... More
Florence: G. Orioli, 1932. Hardcover. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Age-toning along the edges of the boards, a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. This is copy number 9 of 725 copies Signed by Maugham underneath his frontispiece portrait. Of the 725 copies, 700 were offered for..... More
New York: Pocket, 1951. First thus. Very good. Browning. More
New York: Avon, (1944). Softcover. Reprint. 16mo. Illustrated wrappers. Wraps lightly worn along the spine and edges, a bit of soiling, pages toned, very good overall. More
London: Heinemann, (1930). Hardcover. First edition, Stott's state B with won't on p. 147 (no priority according to Stott). Fine in fine dustwrapper. An excellent copy of Maugham's favorite among his own novels, a wicked little *roman à clef* that Maugham denied was about Thomas Hardy and his marriage, or..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948. Hardcover. First American edition. Good hardcover. Pages very light brown. Corners slightly rubbed. Edges of spine have tears. Minor spine lean. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. Hardcover. Book-Of-The-Month Club edition. Binding slightly cocked, a few faint scratches on the boards, near fine, in a rubbed, about very good dust jacket, with chips and small tears along the edges and folds, and a sunned spine. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1948. Hardcover. First American edition. Owner bookplate on front pastedown, slight rubbing on boards and gilt spine lettering, near fine in a good only dust jacket with several nicks and creased tears, scratches, and interior tape repairs. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1939. Hardcover. Very good. More
New York: Literary Guild, 1939. Hardcover. Very good Browning of pages. Cover rubbed with some staining. More
London: Heinemann, (1939). Hardcover. First edition. Pages a little toned, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with very subtle toning on the spine letters, a few tiny tears at the crown, and a very small stain on rear panel. Basis for the fine film with Deanna Durbin as..... More
New York: George H. Doran, (1921). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in gray papercovered boards with paper spine labels, in a good, first issue dustwrapper (with brown lettering) with overall toning, several small chips, and a long tear along the rear spine fold. Basis for two films, the 1925 Frank..... More
New York: George H. Doran, (1921). Hardcover. Later printing ("GHD" emblem on title page but not copyright page). Slim octavo. Papercovered boards with printed spine label. Spine toned with some rubbing, a small splash mark, and a tiny tear at the foot, very good. Basis for two films, the 1925..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1921). Hardcover. First American edition. Slight toning on the board edges and pencil owner name on the front free endpaper thus near fine in a very good dust jacket with foxing, toning, and tears. Basis for two films, the 1925 Frank Borzage version, and..... More
