MAUGHAM W. Somerset. Cosmopolitans. , 1936.

Price: US$488.16 + shipping

Description: Limited signed edition. 8vo. Original rose cloth, beveled. London, William Heinemann. One of only 175 copies numbered and signed by Maugham, published the month after the English trade edition. This is a near-fine copy (spine very slightly faded, but less than usual for this fade-prone colour); there is no wear. This book was issued without a dust jacket.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. COSMOPOLITANS Very Short Stories. William Heinemann, 1936.

Price: US$533.36 + shipping

Description: First edition, limited issue. Number 104 of 175 copies signed by the author. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt in the original glassine dustwrapper. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Silk page marker present. A fine copy with just a hint of fading to the spine.

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom

MAUGHAM W. Somerset. Cosmopolitans, very short Stories. , 1936.

Price: US$610.21 + shipping

Description: First English edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. London, William Heinemann. This edition published five weeks after the American edition. This copy is of the the third and usual issue (of four) - with a cancel half-title that lists nineteen non-dramatic works ending with Don Fernando, and with a cancel leaf for pages 5-6. Front free endpaper loose, otherwise a near-fine copy. This copy is inscribed and signed by Maugham on the title page - first by striking out his printed name and signing ?W. Somerset Maugham?, and then with ?For Eddie affectionately W.M.? The front pastedown bears the bookplate (by the french artist Marie Laurencin) of Edward Wassermann - a banker and Seligman banking heir who was a major party-giver of the Harlem renaissance (his name comes up in Van Vechten's book The Splendid Drunken Twenties). Maugham inscribed numerous books to him, quite personally. In a stout, functional leatherbound folding case.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom