Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Front cover stained.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 138 pages
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: [First US edition] (see note below). Original greyish beige boards, now tanned at edges and on spine; paper spine label titled in black; spine ends creased wth short closed tears. A near fine copy. (Stott #A27b*) (N.B. - This differs from Stott's description of the US edition in two respects: first, it has a spine label while Stott calls for a cover label; second, the title at base of copyright page is followed by "I", not called for in the bibliography.).
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. East of Suez. , 1922.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. East of Suez. New York: George H. Doran, [1922]. 138 p. Paper-covered boards, paper spine label. Light rubbing at spine ends, else very good-plus in an almost very good dust jacket with chipping at the spine ends and corners. Bookplate. First American edition.
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. East of Suez: A Play in Seven Scenes. George H. Doran, New York, 1922.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Papercovered boards with printed paper spine label. Just a touch tanned at the spine and extremities, corners a little bumped, else near fine without dust jacket. Basil Rathbone starred in the original theatrical production and this play was also the basis for a 1925 Raoul Walsh film featuring Pola Negri, Edmund Lowe, Rockliffe Fellowes, and Noah Beery. A nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. EAST OF SUEZ;. George H. Doran, New York, 1922.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Grey paper coverd boards, light sunning to top & bottom edges. Titles onlai to spine, light wear to head and tail. Book body clean. Grey dustjacket with black titles displays moderate wear/chipping to edges and light soiling to covers, spine is sunned, ol scotch-tape repair to back of dustjacket, archival brodart protected.
Seller: Counterpoint Records & Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM W. Somerset. East of Suez, a Play in Seven Scenes. , 1922.
Price: US$740.75 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 8vo. Original grey paper-covered boards with spine label. New York, George H. Doran Company. This copy is inscribed and signed by Maugham to Edgar Selwyn. Selwyn (1874-1944) began as a theatre usher and became a successful playwright and screenwriter during the 1920s and 1930s; he also produced some plays on broadway, such as the stage adaptation of ?Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.? The volume is in very good condition (spine slightly darkened, one-eighth-inch chip at the head of the spine). In a stout, functional leatherbound case.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. East of Suez: A Play in Seven Scenes. Doran, New York, 1922.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Owner's gift inscription on the front fly, the top edge of the fragile papercovered boards just a touch tanned, a very near fine copy in very good plus dustwrapper with a few light splash marks on the spine and some short tears. Basil Rathbone starred in the original theatrical production and this play was also the basis for a 1925 Raoul Walsh film featuring Pola Negri, Edmund Lowe, Rockliffe Fellowes, and Noah Beery. A very nice copy in the scarce jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.