Massachusetts: A Guide to its Places and People

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1937).

Price: $500.00

Hardcover. Early reprint. Octavo. 675pp. Illustrated with photographs. with map in a pocket on the rear pastedown. Ownership signature of author and Nobel Prize-winner Alexis St. L. Leger (better known as Saint-John Perse) on front fly. Neat underlining and notes, likely in the hand of Leger, as well as edgewear on the boards, very good without dust jacket.

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Massachusetts: A Guide to its Places and People
Massachusetts: A Guide to its Places and People

W. Somerset Maugham
birth name: William Somerset Maugham
born: 1/25/1874
died: 12/16/1965
nationality: Great Britain

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Biography

English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer whose work is characterized by a clear, unadorned style, cosmopolitan settings, and a shrewd understanding of human nature. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Maugham was especially prolific. Among our favorites are The Razor's Edge (1944), the American edition preceding the U.K. edition, issued in the U.S. in both a limited and trade edition (the limited had an unprinted glassine jacket - usually missing - and a slipcase, the trade a jacket), The Moon and Sixpence (1919 - the jacket is very scarce), and his first book, Liza of Lambeth (1897 - reportedly issued with a jacket, we've never seen one but suspect that indeed it was). We are intrigued by his many plays, although it can take considerable effort to figure out the various editions and states, even with the good Stott bibliography.

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