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Somerset Maugham, W. A Writer's Notebook. Doubleday, New York, 1949.
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 367pp. ; frontispiece a b&w portrait of the author. Maugham's reduction of 15 volumes of notes. "I jotted down all kinds of thoughts and emotions of a personal nature First entry from 1892. Corners slightly knocked. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cecil Books, East Molesey, United Kingdom
W. Somerset Maugham. A Writer's Notebook. Doubleday, 1949.
Price: US$22.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pages age toned, sticker on front of dj, faint musty smell, dj in new protective mylar
Seller: CKBooks, Bussey, IA, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1949.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Mild edgewear and bumping to boards. Unclipped DJ protected in mylar, light rubbing and soiling, light chipping and creasing along edges, title on spine faded. Solid binding and clean text. Pages lightly browned. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages
Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Doubleday & Co, Garden City, New York, 1949.
Price: US$67.50 + shipping
Description: Nice copy in its first printing after a limited edition of 1000 numbered and signed copies. Unmarked, tight and squae. Nice red topstain still fresh. sharpt tips. Price clipped jacket has moderate edgewear but virtually no paper loss. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Doubleday and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American trade edition ( stated ) after the publication of the signed limited edition. Published by Doubleday and Company in 1949. Bound in publisher's black cloth, lettered in gold. A near fine copy of the book with the small original bookseller's label and a diminutive bump to lower edge of front board. Dust jacket very good with some wear edges of front panel. Chipping to jacket spine at head and base. ( Three quarter inch deep by half inch wide to base, and one quarter to one half inch along head. )
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York, 1949.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering (issued without dust jacket). 133pp. Very good. Quite mild binding wear only, else tight and internally near fine. Attractive true first edition, with "Limited Edition" on half-title verso, of these jottings about the writer's early years, "preprinted" from the condensed serialized version and preceding an expanded trade edition published by Doubleday later in 1949. Enjoyable insights from the incredibly prolific English novelist/short story writer/playwright/man of letters (1874-1965) covering the years 1892 to 1944.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1949.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American trade edition after the printing of the limited edition. xvi, 367pp. Bookstore label on rear pastedown, bottom edges of cloth lightly soiled, very good in a very good moderately worn dust jacket with short nicks and tears on edges.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. , 1949.
Price: US$82.99 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 8vo. Original black cloth, dust jacket. Garden City New York, Doubleday and Co. The trade issue. This copy is fine except for a discreet signature on the front endpaper; the jacket is near-fine (minor browning of the white portions, a few faint creases at the top of the rear panel).
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Maugham, W. Somerset. A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949.
Price: US$103.38 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.5
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949.
Price: US$153.53 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Brand New!
Seller: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Maugham,W.Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Doubleday & Co., New York, 1949.
Price: US$255.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 367pp. Red cloth. Lacking slipcase. #984/1000 SIGNED by Somerset Maugham. Name of former owner on front endpaper.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
W. Somerset Maugham. A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$307.94 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. Owner imprint on 2nd FEP. Rubbing on front/rear panels and spine.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1949.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering in black panel on spine, top edge gilt; pp. xvi, 367. First edition stated. Number 797 from an edition limited to 1000 copies, signed by Maugham on the limitation page.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. , 1949.
Price: US$484.17 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 8vo. Original red cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled, in original labelled black, paperboard clipcase. Garden City New York, Doubleday and Co. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Maugham. This is a fine unopened copy, in the original black paperboard slipcase with label (near-fine, fine with very minor wear at its corners); the book was issued without a printed dust jacket. In a stout, functional leatherbound case.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Maugham, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, 1949.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition 1 of 1000 SIGNED BY MAUGHAM. Slip case very good with some very light chipping to the edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: MAUGHAM, SOMERSET, W. (1874-1965) British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Good Typed Letter Signed ''W. S. Maugham'', on his personal Villa Mauresque [France] stationary. One page, quarto, December 23, 1949. Very Good condition. To New York publisher and literary agent Carl Brandt, Maugham relays how his works no longer have much marketable value, but hopes to sell his television rights. Maugham writes: ''I was very glad to get your letter, and of course your great reputation has not escaped my notice. It has been besides a great pleasure to me to meet from time to time your charming and beautiful wife. I will be quite frank with you. Now that I have stopped writing matter that has saleable value, I cannot think it worth any agent s while to concern himself with it. I expect to produce an essay once every now and then; but they will be much too long for any magazine, and I shall wait to publish them in book form when I have enough of them. As perhaps you know, Messrs. A.P. Watt & Son have been agents with Doubleday & Company for many years, as also with Heinemann. The only profitable wares I have to sell now are my television rights, and as far as they are concerned I have been for some time in communication with John S. Gibbs, who I am told is the expert agent for television, and with whom I expect presently to make an arrangement. Yours sincerely, W.S. Maugham.''
Seller: Gerard A.J. Stodolski, Inc. Autographs, Bedford, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition of Maugham's semi-autobiographical confessional. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and raised bands to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "by W. Somerset Maugham For Bill Safire in recollection of a pleasant chat." The recipient, William Safire, was an important American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixonâs campaign in the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. Following Nixonâs 1968 victory, Safire served as a presidential speechwriter for both Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press, describing himself as the voice of âlibertarian conservativesâ and authored several political columns, most notably his weekly column âOn Languageâ which appeared in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death in 2009. He authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safireâs âmagnum opus,â Safireâs Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. With Safire's bookplate to the pastedown and his gilt initials to the front panel. In near fine condition. A Writer's Notebook "shows [Maugham] at his best, as detached, observant, and affecting a pose of worldliness even in his apparent private thoughts" (Drabble 631).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.