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Price: US$19.89 + shipping
Description: Previous owner's inscription. Poor copy in the original cloth with paper labels. Spine worn. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age, with some damage to corners. Internally, bright and clean. Text remains well preserved overall. Physical description: 216p. front. [port.] ; 20cm. Subjects: English drama. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$31.60 + shipping
Description: Previous owner's inscription. Poor copy in the original cloth with paper labels. Spine worn. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age, with some damage to corners. Internally, bright and clean. Text remains well preserved overall. Physical description: 216p. front. [port.] ; 20cm. Subjects: English drama. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$88.39 + shipping
Description: 8°. Portrait, 216 pp. Original black cloth with label to spine and front cover, dust-jacket American edition with the cast of the production at the Ohio Theatre, the frontispiece with a portrait of the leading lady Ethel Barrymore. - Fore-edge foxed, only first and last leaves with little foxing, else clean inside, uncut, the jacket a little rubbed, cloth very fresh.
Seller: Antiquariat Thomas Rezek, München, Germany
Maugham, W. Somerset. THE CONSTANT WIFE. George H. Doran Company, New York, 1926.
Price: US$235.13 + shipping
Description: A Comedy in Three Acts. Pp. [ii]+ 216, frontispiece portrait; black cloth, yellow paper title labels on spine and upper board, the boards a trifle warped and slightly scuffed; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips, the backstrip browned and slightly damp stained; inked gift inscription (dated 1935) on the upper free endpaper, a couple of tiny edge chips or splits, a little light foxing; George H. Doran Company, New York, 1926 [1927]. First edition. Stott A35. *The frontispiece is a portrait of Ethel Barrymore in the role of Constance Middleton, from the 1926 Ohio Theatre Cleveland production of the play. The copyright date is 1926, but the book was not published until April 1927 in America and 4 months later in the UK.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The Constant Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts. George H. Doran, New York, 1926.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, preceding the English edition. About fine in near fine dust jacket with a little age-toning and tiny nicks at the spine and corners. A play.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The Constant Wife. George H. Doran Company, New York, 1926.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing (and correct First), preceding the British edition by one year. Octavo; black cloth, with yellow title labels on spine and front panel printed in black; dustjacket; 216pp. Light soil to text edges and to preliminary and terminal pages, with a small, unobtrusive puncture to upper rear board edge; Very Good+. Dustjacket is lightly soiled, has a few shallow chips at spine ends and corners, several short tears and a touch of sunning to spine; still an attractive, Very Good+ example without restoration.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The Constant Wife. George H. Doran, New York, 1926.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, preceding the English edition. Frontispiece portrait of Ethel Barrymore, to whom the book is dedicated and who appeared in the original production. Fine in a very attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a touch of tanning, and some light splash marks on the spine. A very nice copy of this play, basis for the 1929 Robert Milton-directed early talkie *Charming Sinners* with Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Mary Nolan, and William Powell.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.