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Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Modern Library reprint edition of the author's semi-autobiographical novel which first appeared in 1915. "Of Human Bondage" is centered around a young man who is orphaned and has difficulty finding his way in the world or finding the love of his life. This work was named to the Modern Library list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso advertises 334 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1948 (though 1915 date appears in book). ML #176.1. --- Loosened front and rear hinges have been repaired on this item (front gutter still has exposed mull and torn paper); and with inkings & pencilings to ffep, else a tightly-bound, sound copy. Fair only, price-clipped dust jacket with numerous chips and tears but remaining mostly intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; (4), 760 pages
Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage with a degression on the art of Fiction. , 1946.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paperback with stapled wraps. Very good condition with very light sunning to edges, very light shelf wear to edges including some very light creasing to top edge and spine from light use, very slightly yellowed pages from age, otherwise the book is very fine with very light use and age, clean, bright and tight. Text from speech addressing the library of congress upon presentation of book. Plastic cover in very good condition with light shelf wear including light rubbing and a few light creases.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Description: VG+ a little sunned at the top of the covers.
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
MAUGHAM, W[illiam] Somerset. Of Human Bondage with a Digression on the Art of Fiction. , 1946.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Description: MAUGHAM, W[illiam] Somerset. Of Human Bondage. With a Digression on the Art of Fiction. An Address. Original printed wrapper. [Washington: Library of Congress], 1946. Cover slightly faded, else a fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In wraps. VG+ a little sunned at the top of the covers. One of 2500 copies. Second printing., 1946 Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.20 + shipping
Description: 16p., 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound wraps, second printing ; wraps a bit edgeworn, otherwise in very good condition.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing. Stapled wrappers. Front wrap with a small soil mark, covers slightly toned, very good. One of 2500 copies. An address delivered by Maugham on the occasion of his presenting the original manuscript for *Of Human Bondage* to the Library. (*Stott* 52).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 1946.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Although the colophon states ' Second Printing ', this is actually the first trade publication of this Maugham monograph, preceded by a limited edition signed by him. One of 2,500 copies printed for the Library of Congress ( 1,000 of which were for sale ) in 1946 in slate blue wrappers. A near fine copy with some toning/light staining to the blue wraps. Less common than the limitation would suggest.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Program only. Folio leaf folded into four panels. Age-toned edges, folds are tender, very good. Program for an address delivered by Maugham on the occasion of his presenting the original manuscript for *Of Human Bondage* to the Library at the Coolidge Auditorium, April 20, 1946. *OCLC* locates only 3 copies, none in trade.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington, DC: The Library of Congress / U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. Limited Edition, this being one of the 300 unsigned copies of the entire 800 copy run. Octavo; 16pp. Printed blue paper-covered boards. Covers lightly shelfworn with a few smudges to surface. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Address given by Maugham at the Library of Congress "on the occasion of his presenting the original manuscript of his novel 'Of Human Bondage' to the Library."
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.. Of Human Bondage.. Washington, DC, Library of Congress, 1946., 1946.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dedication program issued when Maugham presented the manuscript to the Library of Congress. Printed in red and black. With one page of the manuscript reproduced. Together with a ticket to Maugham's lecture on the occasion. See Stott A65.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of the 500 signed copies (300 unsigned also issued)of n address given by Somerset Maugham in the Coolidge Auditorium at The Library of Congress on the occasion of his gift to the Library of the original manuscript for Of Human Bondage in 1946. There were unsigned copies issued as well. Slender hardcover in gray paper-covered boards, no title to spine, signed on the front end paper. Rear end papers toned from laid in newspaper clippings. No title to spine. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$294.90 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Owner inscription. 1 of 800 copies, 500 which been signed, this one unsigned. ; Signed.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$399.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gray boards titled in black. Limited to 800 copies, 500 which have been signed; first state. Signed by Maugham to the ffep. Toning to board extremities and endpages; small bend/wave to top page edges; minor bump to board edge. Laid in is the original program for "the Presentation to the Library of Congress of the autograph manuscript of his novel Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. " This occurred at The Coolidge Auditorium, April 20, 1946. The program is lightly toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 16 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Government Printing Office, 1946. 16 pgs. One of 500 copies signed by W. Somerset Maugham and distributed on the event of his address: the remaining 300 were issued later with a cancel colophon. Bound in original blue-gray printed boards. Boards very lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Signed limited edition of the address given by Maugham upon the Library's acceptance of the original autograph manuscript of his masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. Accompanied by the original accompanying program which is very worn and suffers from a bit of bio-preadation on the edges of the wrappers. The program contains a brief description of the original autograph manuscript which notes that it is contained in 16 notebooks written on the recto of each leaf, begun in 1911 and finished in 1914 E-156; 8.8 X 5.4 X 0.1 inches; 16 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Original blue-gray printed boards. Signed by the author on the fly-leaf, ownership inscription to front paste-down. Limited edition, first state, with the second blank conjugate to the colophon. This is the lecture given by Maugham when he presented the manuscript of his novel Of human bondage to the Library of Congress. Limited to 800 copies, this is one of 500 signed by the author, and given as souvenirs to those who were at the ceremony. Rothschild & Whiteman, V, 256; Stott, A65a; NCBEL, 4, 663.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 16pp., Limited to 800 copies 500 of which have been SIGNED BY MAUGHAM, as is this copy. "This address was given by Mr. Maugham in the Coolidge auditorium, the Library of Congress, on the occasion of his presenting the original manuscript of his novel 'Of human bondage' to the library." Size: 8vo.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$437.50 + shipping
Description: Gray boards printed in black; 16, [1] pages. Of a total of 800 copies printed, this is one of 500 SIGNED by the author. Near Fine with minor sunning and soiling
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 500 copies, signed by Maugham. 16, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's gray paper boards. Boards very sliightly bowed First edition, one of 500 copies, signed by Maugham.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition of the address given by Maugham upon the Library's acceptance of the original autograph manuscript of his masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. Octavo, original boards. One of 500 copies signed by W. Somerset Maugham on the front free endpaper. In fine condition. Accompanied by the original accompanying program which is in very good condition. The program contains a brief description of the original autograph manuscript which notes that it is contained in 16 notebooks written on the recto of each leaf, begun in 1911 and finished in 1914. âMaughamâs longest and most ambitious novel, in which âfact and fiction are inextricably mixed,â draws heavily upon the authorâs own youth, with circumstances and names scarcely alteredâ (Parker, 63). âAs early as 1911 [Maugham] had retired temporarily from the theatre to work on his long novel, Of Human Bondage. He was to correct the proofs under the admiring eyes of Desmond MacCarthy in a small hotel at Malo, near Dunkirk; the two men were drivers in an ambulance unit for which they had volunteered at the outbreak of war in 1914⦠Of Human Bondage was published in 1915. It was less noticed in wartime London than in New York, where Theodore Dreiser reviewed it with enthusiasm. It remains Maughamâs most impressive literary work, and by the time of his death [1965] was said to have sold ten million copiesâ (DNB). It was the basis for the 1934 film directed by John Cromwell starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.