Of Human Bondage.
by MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Slight shelf wear to extremities of spine, water-spotting to front panel; some browning to preliminaries. Good to very good.
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York:: George H. Doran,, [1915].. First edition; first issue with no Doran monogram on verso of title page and misprint in line 4 of p. 257. The binding appears to be a later or remainder binding, but is not described in Stott. . publisher's green cloth stamped in black.. Slight shelf wear to extremities of spine, water-spotting to front panel; some browning to preliminaries. Good to very good.. 8vo,. Inscribed by Maugham on the front free endpaper in 1921.
Synopsis
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. " Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's Ethics
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- Bookseller
- Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24484
- Title
- Of Human Bondage.
- Author
- MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's green cloth stamped in black.
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight shelf wear to extremities of spine, water-spotting to front panel; some browning to preliminaries. Good to very good.
- Edition
- First edition; first issue with no Doran monogram on verso of ti
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George H. Doran,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- [1915].
- Pages
- 648 pp.
- Size
- 8vo,
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