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Maugham, W. Somerset. Cosmopolitans Very Short Stories. William Heinemann, London ET AL, 1936.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Corners are beginning to chip, and fade. Pages are yellowing. Spine is beginning to crack at front endpaper. Spine has some light creasing, and has faded.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Maugham, Somerset W.. COSMOPOLITANS: Very short stories. William Heinemann Ltd., 1936.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: There is gilt on the spine and the front of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
W.Somerset Maugham. Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories. William Heinemann Limited, 1936.
Price: US$10.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1936. Reprinted. 302 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Some page corners folded. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Maugham, W. Somerset. Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories. William Heinemann London (1936), 1936.
Price: US$20.13 + shipping
Description: 302pp. 8vo Blue cloth. 1st Edition, 3rd issue: Scott Asia. Stolt #35: 1st American ed. precedes Eng. by more than a week. Hinges cracked w/ book block detatched from back cover, 3" tear along back joint, spine faded, lightly rubbed, interior clean: Good-
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$21.77 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION 8vo. blue clothbound hardback, gilt, in unclipped dust jacket. 302pp. Pencil owner name and inscription to ffep and one small mark. Dust jacket damaged with large areas of loss to top and foot of spine, heavy reinforcements with tape to both sides. Overall Good in a Sound dust jacket. (SHELF 200) ** Pictures available upon request, if not already displayed here.** The shop is open 7 days a week. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Cosmopolitans. London: William Heinemann, 1936.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression, third issue. Octavo, pp 302. Bound in blue cloth covered hard boards, gilt lettering to spine and upper board and author's device to lower corner of the front board in black. With the original dust jacket, unclipped (7/6 net). Book has spotting and browning within, boards are clean and bright, overall VG-; jacket is tanned to the spine and spotted to the rear panel and rear flap and grades Good Plus. This, the third issue of this book is what is usually found (the first two are very rare) having 19 non-dramatic works listed to the verso of the half-title page.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1936.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, third issue (the first two issues are very uncommon). A bit cocked, tape repair on front fly, near very good in about very good dustwrapper with a chip and some internal repairs.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset.. Cosmopolitans.. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1936.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. Near Fine in steel-grey-blue cloth stamped in gilt at spine, iron blue endpapers, in a Very Good two-toned blue dustwrapper, all four flap-corner deeply clipped. The front free endpaper has been reset, and has one small chip from lower fore-corner. This is the third state, with the half-title and leaf 5/6p. on stubs. Jacket is unfaded, and slightly toned along spine panel. 302pp. Short stories. Pretty uncommon in jacket. Q06629
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1936.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: Third Issue, with half-title page and pp.5-6 cancel leaves, the former listing 19 non-dramatic works on the reverse, Ah King being the last, followed by the Plays. Octavo (19.75cm); dark blue linen, with titles stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; brown topstain; dustjacket; xiii, [3], 302, [2]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, topstain slightly dulled, with mild discoloration to endpapers and foxing to text edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 7/6 net), edgeworn, with sunning to spine, several nicks and short tears, with a stain to lower front flap fold, and scattered foxing overall; Very Good. Collection of 29 short stories. The American edition precedes the British by one month. STOTT A51a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1936.
Price: US$149.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, dark topstain. First edition, 3rd issue, with half-title and pages 5 and 6 a cancel leaf and lists 19 non-dramatic works, the last being Don Fernando, followed by the plays (Stott, 119) Spine head slightly pushed, points lightly rubbed/bumped, endpages sunned, faintly pencilled PO name. Else a sound and square copy. The DJ in mylar has trace of soil/ two short edge tears to rear panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM W. Somerset. Cosmopolitans. , 1936.
Price: US$484.17 + shipping
Description: Limited signed edition. 8vo. Original rose cloth, beveled. London, William Heinemann. One of only 175 copies numbered and signed by Maugham, published the month after the English trade edition. This is a near-fine copy (spine very slightly faded, but less than usual for this fade-prone colour); there is no wear. This book was issued without a dust jacket.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. COSMOPOLITANS Very Short Stories. William Heinemann, 1936.
Price: US$529.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, limited issue. Number 104 of 175 copies signed by the author. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt in the original glassine dustwrapper. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Silk page marker present. A fine copy with just a hint of fading to the spine.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
MAUGHAM W. Somerset. Cosmopolitans, very short Stories. , 1936.
Price: US$605.21 + shipping
Description: First English edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. London, William Heinemann. This edition published five weeks after the American edition. This copy is of the the third and usual issue (of four) - with a cancel half-title that lists nineteen non-dramatic works ending with Don Fernando, and with a cancel leaf for pages 5-6. Front free endpaper loose, otherwise a near-fine copy. This copy is inscribed and signed by Maugham on the title page - first by striking out his printed name and signing ?W. Somerset Maugham?, and then with ?For Eddie affectionately W.M.? The front pastedown bears the bookplate (by the french artist Marie Laurencin) of Edward Wassermann - a banker and Seligman banking heir who was a major party-giver of the Harlem renaissance (his name comes up in Van Vechten's book The Splendid Drunken Twenties). Maugham inscribed numerous books to him, quite personally. In a stout, functional leatherbound folding case.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom