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Price: US$433.59 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: limited edition leather binding in black slip case; white morocco spine and dark blue calf; lettering in gilt on dark blue leather label on spine; top edge gilt; gilt is bright; hinges are tight; no foxing; no signatures or inscriptions by previous owners; number 964 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies; SIGNED by author and artist; near fine in a very good slip case with edgewear at tips of slip case; known as Maugham's 80th birthday edition; frontispiece is a reproduction of the original portrait of Maugham by Sutherland dated 1953; printed by The Curwen Press; fore edges and bottom edges untrimmed;
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Maugham, W. Somerset. Cakes and Ale. William Heinemann, London, 1954.
Price: US$499.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Cream and navy calf with leather spine label, TEG. Limited edition # 444 of 1000 signed by Maugham and artist Graham Sutherland to the limitation page. Faint trace of rubbing to leather else fine condition in lightly worn original slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. Cakes and Ale. William Heinemann, London, 1954.
Price: US$527.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Quarter cream calf with black gilt lettered label over blue calf.Housed in black cardboard slipcase.Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies only signed by the author and the Illustrator on the limitation page. This being number 998. Edition done for Maugham's 80th birthday with famous lithograph by Sutherland. He lived until 92. Some wear and spotting to delicate leather but still nice. Slipcase a bit edge-worn. This was the author's favourite book.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. Cakes and Ale. William Heinemann, London, 1954.
Price: US$565.55 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Quarter cream calf with black gilt lettered label over blue calf. Housed in black cardboard slipcase.Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies only signed by the author and the Illustrator on the limitation page. This being number 484. Edition done for Maugham's 80th birthday with famous lithograph by Sutherland. He lived until 92. The white leather is very gently rubbed in one small spot near the foot of the spine, otherwise this book is a fine copy, remarkably clean and in excellent condition, with the original glassine wrapper.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$604.62 + shipping
Description: With an original lithograph and decorations by Graham Sutherland. Pp. xii+256(last blank), frontispiece portrait, pictorial tailpieces, one decorative initial, the title page and 4 full page facsimiles printed in red & black; small med. 8vo; qr. mushroom calf with gilt lettered and decorated black leather title label on spine, navy calf boards with author's symbol in blind near bottom fore-corner of upper board; t.e.g., others uncut, partly unopened; within black card slipcase, edges lightly worn; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers slightly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; William Heinemann Ltd, London, n.d.[1954]. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist. Stott A40d. *Published in January 1954, to celebrate the author's eightieth birthday. The lithographic frontispiece was printed at the Curwen Press. The facsimiles are reproductions of the first and last two pages of the original manuscript of Cakes and Ale.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia