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Description: FIRST EDITION small octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
MAUGHAM, W Somerset. The Trembling of a Leaf. London William Heinemann, 1921.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition, 2nd Issue (printed in Great Britain by Billing & Sons Ltd ). 13 x 19.5 cm blue cloth with gilt stamped titles to the front and spine. Black stamped vignette to the front and publisher's device to the rear, 302pp [10]publisher's adverts. Light marking to the boards, a touch of rubbing to the corners and spine tips and a little cockling to the front board. Internally there is no name inscription or bookplate and there are only occasional light marks and a touch of spotting on the edge of the text block. There is the usual uniform toning to the free endpapers and adjacent page, caused by acid migration from the glue used on the front pastedown. All in all a collectable 1st Edition copy of Maugham's second collection of short stories which includes 'Rain' which has been adapted adapted as a play, opera and on three occasions as a film. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Seller: Rainford & Parris Books - PBFA, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition 1921. No inscriptions,302pp+10pp ads.Dark blue green cloth.All tight bright and clean.
Seller: Borderland Books, Llangollen, SELEC, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue. Octavo, pp 302 + 10 pages publisher's advertisements at rear. Bound in blue cloth covered hard boards with gilt lettering to spine and upper board and the author's device to the lower corner of the upper board. Stott's first issue with the free end papers being part of the sheets forming the text, no blanks after the publisher's adverts and the earlier state of the advertisements with Eli of the Downs at the bottom of p.2 and Haggar's Hoard at the top of p.4. The book is in Very Good condition, bright and clean internally, free endpapers browned, some webbing showing at the rear end-paper and the cloth on the spine a little bubbled. Boards are clean and the gilt lettering is bright. Attractive example of the uncommon UK first issue. [Stott A25b]
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Price: US$442.55 + shipping
Description: FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST ISSUE 8vo. dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. 302pp. plus 10pp. Publisher's List at end. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Browning to first and last three pages (please see photos). Very slight rubbing to corners else a VERY GOOD, BRIGHT COPY. ** 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. The Trembling of a Leaf, Little Stories of the South Sea Islands. , 1921.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: First English edition. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth. London, William Heinemann. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Karl Pfeiffer, for whom Maugham inscribed several books, some quite personally. Maugham and Pfeiffer met in 1923 and saw each other frequently from the late 1930s until the early 1950s, when the relationship began to decline. Their association effectively ended in 1959 when Pfeiffer published a biography of Maugham (Somerset Maugham: A Candid Portrait) in which he insulted Maugham's writing. Near fine copy of a collection which contains Maugham's most famous short story 'Rain'. Cloth with very slight wear at head of spine and endpapers darkened and cracked. Toole Stott A26a.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom