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Points of View: Five Essays
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 284 pp, acknowledgments, note, The Three Novels of a Poet; The Saint; Prose and Dr. Tillotson; The Short Story; Three Journalists. First Edition, 1959. "The five literary essays in this volume demonstrate not only Maugham's consummate mastery of the essay form but also his perennial and lively interest in a tremendous variety of experience. His characteres range from an Indian Swami to three egotistical French diarists; his setings include England in the seventeenth century and Germany in the nineteenth." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Rubbed spot top fore-edge corner rear panel dj, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000420
- Title
- Points of View: Five Essays
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- LITERARY CRITICISM BRITISH AUTHORS MAUGHAM WILLIAM SOMERSET (1874-1965) LITERARY ESSAYS
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERARY CRITICISM;
- Size
- 8vo
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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