Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, New York, 1941.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cloth hardcover is soiled and rubbed on all extremities. Blind stamp on the front board. The spine is sunned and the titles faded. Inscription by previous owner on ffep, dated 1941.The rest of the book is unmarked. The pages are lightly soiled and age-toned. The binding is pulling away from the spine. **Heavy book. Extra shipping may be required**
Seller: George Strange's Bookmart, Brandon, MB, Canada
W. Somerset Maugham. Strictly Personal. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light wear/soiling to covers, endpapers yellowed; a few pencil notations throughout.
Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly personal. Doubleday, Doran and Co., inc, 1941.
Price: US$24.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Sun tanned top edge and spine. No dust jacket. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.
Seller: BookResQ., West Valley City, UT, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran and Co., Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No d-j. Minor wear. Pages tanned. "200" stamped on bottom edge. Bookplate on front inside cover.
Seller: Encanto Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.94 + shipping
Description: schwarzer OLWd. mit goldgeprägtem Rücken, OUmschlag (laminiert), [4]+272 Seiten, Frontispiz-Porträt des Autors, 16 x 22 cm, Umschlag an den Rändern leicht berieben und mit ganz kleinen Verlusten eingerissen, Vorsätze ausgeblichen, sonst perfekt, insgesamt noch sehr guter Zustand. Book Language/s: English
Seller: Antikvariat Valentinska, Praha, Czech Republic
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1941.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover edge wear.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset.. Strictly Personal.. Doubleday, Doran and Company., Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American trade edition. (Preceding British edition. ) Near fine in black cloth with red top stain in a very good+ dust jacket. Two small traces of tape residue on front and rear end papers. Faintly discernible erasure at head of front end paper. Interior tape mends have bled through on jacket at corners. Orange hue on spine of jacket lightly faded. ) Memoirs of the author's travails escaping Nazi occupied France. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET.. Strictly Personal. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; limited issue; one of 550 numbered and signed copies. Spine faded; a very good to fine copy in a lightly worn and faded publisher's slipcase. This issue preceded both the American trade and English first editions. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday Doran & Company, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Maugham has lined out his printed name on the title page and SIGNED below it, added "for Alfred Kaiser", and added November 20th below the 1941 date at the bottom of the page. Some browning to the gutters else very good in a very good dustjacket with light edgewear. Not priceclipped and no markings. (shelf)
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1941.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1/515 copies (#433) signed by the author. The cover shows light edgewear with a small rubbed spot and light fading to the spine. The binding is sound. There is a bookplate pasted inside the front cover,
Seller: Dogwood Books, Rome, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Stated First Edition. Number 146 of 515 limited copies signed by Maugham on second front flyleaf. Good plus copy minus jacket. In rose cloth covers with blindstamped African symbol on front cover and leather label with gilt gilt lettering on spine. Bevelled edges and gilt top edge. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked text pages. Unsigned book plate on ffep and name and date on rfep. Tape shadow on front and rear pastedown. Photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Quaker House Books, Catawissa, PA, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc., New York, 1941.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed limited (#36 of 515) on the limitation page, book in very good+ to near fine condition, gift inscription on the back of the front endpage, slipcase faded and a bit edgeworn, still a very nice collectible copy. First Printing. Very Good+
Seller: Fallen Leaf Books, Nashville, IN, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc., NY, 1941.
Price: US$349.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rose cloth, leather spine label titled in gilt, TEG, beveled board edges. Limited edition #309/500 flat signed by Maugham to the limitation page. Spine panel lightly toned, minor damage to front gutter, front hinge slightly spread with mesh showing, although still strong. Frontis portrait. Endpages slightly darkened, textblock edge a bit foxed. No slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 272 pp, b&w photo frontis, stated First Edition, limited to 515 & signed by the author. Binding tight & square, pages clean and unmarked, cover cloth Near Fine, with slight fade to spine. gilt top edge. "Newbegin's" bookstore stamp at top hinge rear pastedown. cardbaord slipcase barely holding together. 6.1" x 8.6" red cloth boards. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.. Strictly Personal.. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 272 pp. 8vo, publisher's bevelled cloth. First edition; No. 497 of 505 copies, signed by W. Somerset Maugham. Slightly over-opened just after and before the endsheets at beginning and end of text block; spine very slightly tanned with light use at extremities (one corner a little bumped); still, tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc., NY, 1941.
Price: US$449.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Brick red cloth with leather spine label titled in gilt, TEG. Limited edition #106 of 515 signed by Maugham to the limitation page. Frontis photo. One corner faintly nudged, slight hint of sunning to spine else tight and square in VG publisher's slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$468.22 + shipping
Description: Portrait frontispiece One of 515 numbered copies signed by the author Spine a little rubbed and discoloured, upper hinge cracked, but a nice copy
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Maugham, William Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First and Limited edition, no. 40 of 515 numbered copies SIGNED by Maugham. 1 vols. 8vo. This special limited edition was issued two days before the American trade edition. Stott A60a Original plum buckram boards with beveled edges, black leather spine label, t.e.g. Spine slightly faded, otherwise a fine copy, in original mulberry paper slipcase First and Limited edition, no. 40 of 515 numbered copies SIGNED by Maugham.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. , 1941.
Price: US$601.99 + shipping
Description: First trade edition. 8vo. Original black cloth decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. Garden City New York, Doubleday Doran and Co. First trade edition, published two days after the American limited edition. This is a fine copy, in a good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page and additionally inscribed 'For Eddie William S. writes his name' to Edward Wasserman with his bookplate designed by Marie Laurencin.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 272pp. Maroon cloth, title on label affixed to spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Light sunning to spine, touch of wear to label on spine. In the publisher's maroon slipcase, all seams worn, some loss along edges, stable condition. From a limited edition of 515 copies, this being number 180, signed by the author. William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English writer with a myriad of plays and novels published by the start of his popular success in 1914. He drove ambulances in World War I as a member of the British Red Cross, and in his spare time, he wrote his best-known piece, Of Human Bondage (1915).
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. STRICTLY PERSONAL. Doubleday Doran, 1941.
Price: US$728.35 + shipping
Description: STRICTLY PERSONAL, Doubleday, Doran, 1941, first edition, spine just a bit lightened, else fine without dust-wrapper as issued in vg+ slip-case. 1/515 specially bound copies SIGNED by the author.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Red cloth with black title label. The slightest of fading to spine, else fine in fine, faintly sunned publisher's slipcase. First U.S. edition, one of 515 copies, signed by the author.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Maugham, William Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First and Limited edition, no. 257 of 515 numbered copies SIGNED by Maugham. 1 vols. 8vo. Stott A60a Original plum buckram boards with beveled edges, black leather spine label, t.e.g. Spine slightly faded, otherwise a fine copy, in a custom vellum-tipped slipcase First and Limited edition, no. 257 of 515 numbered copies SIGNED by Maugham.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET.. Strictly Personal. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; limited issue; one of 550 numbered and signed copies. Bookplate; a fine copy in a lightly worn and faded publisher's slipcase. This issue preceded both the American trade and English first editions. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET.. Strictly Personal. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; limited issue; one of 550 numbered and signed copies. A fine copy in a very good publisher's slipcase. This issue preceded both the American trade and English first editions. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Association Copy, with Gore Vidal's ownership SIGNATURE front end page, # 85/515 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR W. Somerset Maugham at Limitation Page. Book is Near Fine, lacking the slipcase, spine a bit sunned. A wonderful Association Copy, with Vidal's famous quote summing it all up perfectly - "It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition.
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.