Creatures of Circumstance by Maugham, W. Somerset - 1947

Garden City: Doubleday, 1947. Black Cloth. Good+/Good. Wear/soiling to lower left front cover, otherwise a sound copy, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, soiling, rubbing, not price clipped. "Fifteen tales of far and near places".

Doubleday & Co, 1/1/1947. Hardcover. Good. 7x5x1. Hardback book in good condition, but missing dust jacket if issued one

William Heinemann Ltd., 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1952. Reprint. 310 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have medium tanning and light foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Water mark to top edge of front board.

Doubleday & Co, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. No Edition Remarks. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with major ink marks to half title page and slight dog-eared pages throughout. Moderate tanning to text block edges and binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier sunning to spine. There is fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company. 1947. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". F Edition and Printing Not Stated. H Hard Cover -. Good. Edition and printing not stated. Good in good- dust jacket (weat at edges). hard cover. 314pp.

Doubleday & Co, 1947. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. 7x5x1. Garden City, 1947; stated 1st edition; black cloth covered boards; mild corner and spine edge wear; acceptable jacket with heavy edge and corer wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 314 pages.

London: William Heinemann, 1947. Book. Good. Hardback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 310 pages, red cloth cover. Reading Copy (Fair) - Hardback without Dustwrapper. Violet Benyon July 1947 (believed to be Lady Benyon of Englefield House, Berkshire) name to inside front board,, slight tanned pages Aged and Dusty book, spine creased. (#B 01867).

William Heinemann, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Condition is VG. Clean pages and tight binding. Browned end pages. Red boards have general soiling, light edge wear, and a sunned spine. PON on FFEP. First Edition.

Used - Acceptable. Comments: William Heinemann (1947)  - Reading Copy (Fair) - Hardback without Dustwrapper. Violet Benyon July 1947 (believed to be Lady Benyon of Englefield House, Berkshire) name to inside front board,, slight tanned pages Aged and Dusty book, spine creased. YY-E7KP-T8VX

Ayer Co Pub. hardcover. Acceptable/NONE . Doubleday Published this edition in 1947 after last stated copyright. Unmarked hardcover with no dust jacket. Black cloth boards with single gilt logo (as in listing image) on front cover and richly decorated gilt leafy vines on spine with titles. 314 pages. Child scribbled with black crayon inside endpapers at back of book. Lightly cocked spine. All board corners are bumped with very minor flaying. Scuffed covers. Collection of short stories, most are also in the "Collected Short Stories.