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MAUGHAM W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. , 1949.
Price: US$488.23 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth with vellum spine, beveled, in original cream paper-board slipcase. London, William Heinemann. This copy is one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Maugham. This is a fine, clean copy. The slipcase is near-fine, with much less soil or wear than usual, the book was issued without a printed dust jacket. 1949 presentation inscription on front free endpaper. In a stout, functional leatherbound case.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$490.81 + shipping
Description: William Heinemann. 1949. LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000. SIGNED BY MAUGHAM, this being number 595. Bound in quarter vellum, blue cloth boards.Top edge gilt. Endpapers slightly browned. Slight marks to boards otherwise a clean and fresh copy.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Maugham, William Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Heinemann, London, 1949.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition ("published simultaneously with the ordinary trade edition, but in printing followed the trade edition" - Stott), no. 369 of 1,000 copies SIGNED by Maugham. xvi, 367 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Extracts from the writer's voluminous notebooks, arranged chronologically, and selected for their relevance to Maugham's technique of literary production and process of creation. Stott A70c Original blue cloth, vellum spine with leather label, t.e.g. Fine. Roger Stenhouse copy, with his signature, notes and bookplate Limited edition ("published simultaneously with the ordinary trade edition, but in printing followed the trade edition" - Stott), no. 369 of 1,000 copies SIGNED by Maugham.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
W. Somerset Maugham. A Writer's Notebook.. William Heinemann, London, 1949.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Maugham, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. London etc., W. Heinemann, 1949, 1st ed., XVI,349,(1)p., printed in 1000 numb. and signed copies, orig. giltlettered hvellum w. black mor. letterpiece and darkblue blindst. cl. covers, t.e.g. - Traces of bookplate on upper pastedown. Lower outer corner of frontcover sl. bumped. Very fine copy.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook - SIGNED by the Author. London: William Heinemann, 1949.
Price: US$516.64 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp 349. Bound in black cloth covered hard boards, silver lettering and decoration to the spine and upper board; in the original price clipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author to the title page. The book is clean and unmarked internally (other than the author's signature), with two small white marks at the bottom of the upper board, grades Near Fine. The jacket is Very Good with some brown spotting to the rear panel. Signed copies of this, the first trade edition, are much scarcer than the signed limited edition.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Maugham, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. William Heinemann, London, 1949.
Price: US$535.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A beautiful Limited Numbered First Edition signed by the author and numbered 992 of 1000 Limited Edition copies. Bound in half mushroom calf with blue calf boards. The book is in Near Fine condition with light aging to the light-colored calf leather and a contemporary p.o. name dated 1949. A tear in the blue calf board approx. 1/2" across at rear panel top edge. Very clean and bright with gold gilt on the top edge and rough cut pages. A lovely copy by an important American author.
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. William Heinemann, London, 1949.
Price: US$549.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarter vellum over blue cloth, leather spine label, TEG. Limited edition #87 signed by Maugham to the limitation page. Minor toning to the vellum, tiny bump to heel else clean and tight. Housed in the publisher's VG slipcase. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK. William Heinemann Ltd., 1949.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy of this complicated writers early musings. Signed by Maugham on the limitation page in blue ink, copy #383 of this first edition. No browning or foxing noted, original glassine like wrap present as well as the ivory cardboard slipcase. Only the tiniest bumping to corners evident, rarely opened, never read. 8vo., 367pp.
Seller: Charles Thomas Bookseller, Stratham, NH, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. , 1949.
Price: US$745.91 + shipping
Description: First edition, trade issue. 8vo. Original black cloth decorated in silver, dust jacket. London, William Heinemann This copy is in fine condition; the dust jacket (first state) is very good-plus, with quite minor wear at the corners; though the lower corner of the front flap is diagonally cut (but leaving the price), every copy we have seen is exactly like this. This copy is inscribed twice by Maugham. On the half-title, following the book's title, he wrote ?By W. Somerset Maugham his last book for Iain Littler? Then, in a different-coloured ink, and at a later time (see the Littler presentation copy of Points of View), he added after ?His last book?--?,as it seemed at the time. WM? In a stout, functional leatherbound case.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom