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Click to view full description | 1. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Ah King
London Heinemann 1933
First Edition. Signed presentation copy from Maugham to Harpo Marx. Inscribed by the author: ÒFor Harpo Marx, W. Somerset Maugham, grateful to him for a world of fun.Ó From the library of Harpo Marx, the great clown of the Marx Brothers comedy team, and his wife actress Susan Fleming Marx, former member of the Ziegfeld Follies and star of early talking films like Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a couple of minor nicks. With a charming bookplate illustrated by Susan Marx with a drawing of Harpo in his comic character which reads: ÒFROM THE LIBRARY OF HARPO & SUSAN MARX.Ó Harpo Marx first became friends with Maugham in the late 1920s when Alexander Woollcott took Harpo to Maugham's home, the Villa Mauresque, on the French Riviera. As recorded in Marx's memoirs, Harpo Speaks, the two hit it off immediately and during a tour of the Maugham's upstairs master bedroom Harpo stripped off his clothes and dove off the balcony into Maugham's pool. Woollcott, a bit startled looked to Maugham's reaction. Maugham then proceeded to take off his clothes and dove in to join him. Harpo also records a time a the Broadway premiere of the play Dead End, in 1936, he spotted Maugham seated several rows behind him in the audience. ÒI crawled on on all fours, monkey-fashion, across the tops of the seats...when Maugham said, ÔTerribly sorry I haven't a banana for you, Harpo.'Ó
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| 2. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Ashenden. Or The British Agent
London Heinemann 1928
First Edition. Very good lightly used copy with some edge wear and minor rubbing to the cloth at the folds and corners and with some dampstaining to the lower part of the spine and bottom edges, slightly affecting the blank interior margins in an excellent facsimile dust jacket. ''This narrative of some experiences during The Great War of a very insignificant member of the Intelligence Department.Ó Queen's Quorum, Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, both of these lists notes how Ashenden was as an important landmark leap forward in spy fiction and an important influence on the writings of Ambler, Deighton, and especially Le Carre.
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| 3. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Books and You: A Dissertation Upon Reading
London Heinemann 1940
First Edition. Very good copy with some light foxing to the interior and some wear to the extremities and rubbing to the spine without dust jacket.
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| 4. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Cakes and Ale
London Heinemann 1930
First Edition. Bookplate. Very good copy in a used second state dust jacket. One of Maugham's most popular works.
Price: 375.00 USD | See Full
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| 5. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Cakes and Ale
London Heinemann 1930
Second printing. Signed and inscribed by the author to journalist Raymond Marriott, on the front free endpaper: ÒFor Raymond Marriott, from W. Somerset Maugham.Ó Very good copy with some minor darkening to the cloth at the spine and slight edge wear without dust jacket. One of the author's most popular works.
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| 6. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Catalina. A Romance
London Heinemann 1948
First Edition. The story of Catalina, a young crippled girl, and her encounter with a mysterious woman who changes her life. The jacket illustration is a wraparound color painting set on the steps of a Spanish cathedral near a busy town square showing Catalina and a beautiful woman dressed in a glowing blue cloak whom the girl comes to believe is a vision of the Blessed Virgin. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket with a few tiny chips and tears.
Price: 75.00 USD | See Full
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| 7. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Christmas Holiday
London Heinemann 1939
First Edition. Very good copy with some minor edge wear and a bit of faint spotting to the bottom edges of the endpapers in a very good dust jacket with some shallow chipping to the top and bottom of the spine and some tiny edge tears and some slight darkening to the spine and rear panel.
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| 8. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Cosmopolitans
Garden City Doubleday Doran 1936
First Edition - American. Fine clean copy in bright dust jacket with a tiny bit of subtle repair by an expert paper conservationist.
Price: 450.00 USD | See Full
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| 9. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Don Fernando. Or Variations on Some Spanish Themes
Garden City Doubleday, Doran 1935
First Edition - American. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light fading to the top edge of the front panel and the spine with a few tiny tears and nicks. Attractive copy. An exploration of the ÒGolden AgeÓ of Spanish culture, history, art, and spirit.
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| 10. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET East of Suez. A Play In Seven Scenes
London Heinemann 1922
First Edition. Issued largely paperbound, this is one of the small quantity issued in stamped full red buckram cloth. Issued without dust jacket. Spine faded as usual, very good tight copy.
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| 11. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET East of Suez. Great Stories of the Tropics
New York Avon 1948
First Edition. Paperback original. Very good plus copy with just a hint of used in printed wrappers. A collection of twelve short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, each set in a tropical locale where, as the text on the rear cover affirms: Òthe passions run high and the bonds of civilization run thin.Ó
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| 12. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET For Services Rendered. A Play In Three Acts
London Heinemann 1932
First Edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears and a slightly darkened spine.
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| 13. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Lady Frederick. A Comedy in Three Acts
London Heinemann 1914
Second printing. Signed by the author. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to playwright and Broadway producer, Edgar Selwyn. Inscribed on the flyleaf: ÒFor Edgar Selwyn, W. Somerset Maugham.Ó Some slight chipping at head of spine which is slightly darkened. Bound in gray paper-covered boards, with printed paper label. A very good tight copy. Edgar Selwyn was a highly successful playwright in the 1920s and 1930s, and was equally accomplished as a producer of plays on Broadway including the stage adaptation of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
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| 14. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Of Human Bondage
Garden City Garden City Publishing Company (1934)
Motion picture tie-in edition with a wonderful pictorial wraparound band. This book was issued to coincide with the release of the 1934 John Cromwell directed film version of the novel starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, and Reginald Owen. The wraparound band is four and a half inches wide and illustrated with black & white still photographs from the film. Across the top of the front panel portion is printed: ÒW. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S GREAT NOVEL from which the LESLIE HOWARD Picture was taken - 766 Pages - THE COMPLETE STORY.Ó The photographs on the front panel portion is a collage of scenes showing Leslie Howard twice in three photographs with Bette Davis and Frances Dee. On the spine portion is a large close-up portrait of Leslie Howard's head. The book, itself, is a very good copy with some flaking to the gilt-stamping in a very good dust jacket with some chipping (mostly at head of spine), some tears, and some edge creasing. The dust jacket is yellow and has a quote from Theodore Dreiser ÒIt sings, it has color. It has rapture. In viewing it one finds nothing to criticize or regret.Ó Very scarce in this form.
Price: 750.00 USD | See Full
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| 15. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Of Human Bondage
Garden City Doubleday, Doran 1932
Later printing. Signed presentation copy from W. Somerset Maugham to John Durant, a noted sportswriter in the 30s - 50s. Inscribed by the author: ÒFor John Durant. W. Somerset Maugham. New York, 30 March 1936.Ó Good lightly used copy with a 1Ó horizontal tear to the cloth near the top of the spine, some slight fraying to the edges especially at the spine which is also lightly faded without dust jacket.
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| 16. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Original Black & White Photograph of W. Somerset Maugham Signed by Maugham
4 5/8 by 6 1/2 inches (circa 1920s)
A very striking right profile portrait of Maugham from the sitting with him leaning against a chair back holding a cigarette in his left hand. Signed in full, W. Somerset Maugham, in black ink on the mount. In the portrait Maugham is sporting a mustache which he wore at times during the 1920s. Scarce in such an early signed image.
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| 17. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Original Painting Artwork Design for the First Edition Dust Jacket of W. Somerset Maugham's The Vagrant Mood
Published in London by Heinemann in 1953, this signed dust jacket design by the noted dust jacket designer, Barlow, is in fine condition and is much more bright and vivid than the printed dust jacket. Strikingly done in shades or maroon, black, and silver, the artwork is very handsomely framed and matted. Image size approximately 9 by 11 inches (13 by 15 1/2 inches overall). The image shows all the lettering on the front panel and that of the spine area as well showing the publisher's windmill logo. Original artwork for the first edition dust jackets of W. Somerset Maugham is rarely encountered.
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| 18. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET The Explorer
New York Baker & Taylor 1909
First Edition - American & First Illustrated Edition. Tiny bit of rubbing, near fine clean copy. Color frontispiece and black & white plates.
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| 19. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET The Letter. A Play in Three Acts
New York George H. Doran 1925
First Edition - American. Ownership signature. Lightly used copy with a trace of darkening to the gutters, some minor edge wear, a hint of darkening to the paper label at the spine, and very occasional foxing to a few of the interior pages without dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait of actress Katharine Cornell.
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| 20. | MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET The Narrow Corner
London Heinemann 1932
First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author, W. Somerset Maugham to Harpo Marx. Inscribed: ÒFor Harpo Marx, & his golden locks, W. Somerset Maugham.Ó From the library of Harpo Marx, the great clown of the Marx Brothers comedy team, and his wife actress Susan Fleming Marx, former member of the Ziegfeld Follies and star of early talking films like Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields. Fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket with a few tiny chips and tears. With a charming bookplate illustrated by Susan Marx with a drawing of Harpo in his comic character which reads: ÒFROM THE LIBRARY OF HARPO & SUSAN MARX.Ó Harpo Marx first became friends with Maugham in the late 1920s when Alexander Woollcott took Harpo to Maugham's home, the Villa Mauresque, on the French Riviera. As recorded in Marx's memoirs, Harpo Speaks, the two hit it off immediately and during a tour of the Maugham's upstairs master bedroom Harpo stripped off his clothes and dove off the balcony into Maugham's pool. Woollcott, a bit startled looked to Maugham's reaction. Maugham then proceeded to take off his clothes and dove in to join him. Harpo also records a time a the Broadway premiere of the play Dead End, in 1936, he spotted Maugham seated several rows behind him in the audience. ÒI crawled on on all fours, monkey-fashion, across the tops of the seats...when Maugham said, ÔTerribly sorry I haven't a banana for you, Harpo.'Ó
Price: 9500.00 USD | See Full
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