OF HUMAN BONDAGE
by MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
1915. MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. OF HUMAN BONDAGE. London: William Heinemann, [1915]. Small 8vo., blue-green cloth, stamped in gilt. First English Edition. Signed presentation from Maugham on front black page: "For Ingle Barr, This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. W. Somerset Maugham. 28 August, 1957." With Barr's personal bookplate on the front pastedown and with the original shipping address laid in. One of Maugham's most famous works and basis for three movie adaptations. Enclosed in a custom-made slipcase. $7000.00.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Antic Hay Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12995
- Title
- OF HUMAN BONDAGE
- Author
- MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1915
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