The Razor’s Edge
by Maugham W. Somerset
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Mena, Arkansas, United States
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About This Item
True First Edition
1944, same date on title page
VG/VG
Doubleday
Rare, Collectible First Edition with ORIGINAL Dust Jacket
Stated in Book, "True, First Edition after the Printing of a limited printing of 750."
Price of 2.75 on dust jacket. Dedication on Valentine's Day 1944. PO's signature.
This is the story of Larry Darell, an American pilot traumatized by WWI who sets off on a search of some transcendent meaning of his life. Concerned in a large part with the search for the meaning of life with the dichotomy between spirituality and materialism.
Synopsis
The Razor's Edge , by W. Somerset Maugham, first published by Doubleday Doran in the United States in 1944, relates the experiences of a World War I pilot, Larry Darrell, who chooses to embrace a counter-cultural lifestyle as a way of dealing with his PTSD, though the syndrome is of course not identified as such in the book. This book challenges the cultural ideals of the 1940s, and disregards the stereotype of the returning military hero. Some controversy surrounded the publication of this book because of its lack of patriotic fervor and its embrace of bohemian ideals, but today it is regarded as one of the more important pieces of American literature from the 1940s. -
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Details
- Bookseller
- Supercalifabulistic Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 216
- Title
- The Razor’s Edge
- Author
- Maugham W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Date Published
- 1944
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WWI, American Pilot, Spirituality, Chicago, Paris, India, 1920’s , 1930’s
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiques & Collectibles; HIstorical Fiction; Rare; Classics; WWI;
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