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Price: US$399.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gray boards titled in black. Limited to 800 copies, 500 which have been signed; first state. Signed by Maugham to the ffep. Toning to board extremities and endpages; small bend/wave to top page edges; minor bump to board edge. Laid in is the original program for "the Presentation to the Library of Congress of the autograph manuscript of his novel Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. " This occurred at The Coolidge Auditorium, April 20, 1946. The program is lightly toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 16 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Government Printing Office, 1946. 16 pgs. One of 500 copies signed by W. Somerset Maugham and distributed on the event of his address: the remaining 300 were issued later with a cancel colophon. Bound in original blue-gray printed boards. Boards very lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Signed limited edition of the address given by Maugham upon the Library's acceptance of the original autograph manuscript of his masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. Accompanied by the original accompanying program which is very worn and suffers from a bit of bio-preadation on the edges of the wrappers. The program contains a brief description of the original autograph manuscript which notes that it is contained in 16 notebooks written on the recto of each leaf, begun in 1911 and finished in 1914 E-156; 8.8 X 5.4 X 0.1 inches; 16 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$437.50 + shipping
Description: Gray boards printed in black; 16, [1] pages. Of a total of 800 copies printed, this is one of 500 SIGNED by the author. Near Fine with minor sunning and soiling
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 500 copies, signed by Maugham. 16, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's gray paper boards. Boards very sliightly bowed First edition, one of 500 copies, signed by Maugham.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition of the address given by Maugham upon the Library's acceptance of the original autograph manuscript of his masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. Octavo, original boards. One of 500 copies signed by W. Somerset Maugham on the front free endpaper. In fine condition. Accompanied by the original accompanying program which is in very good condition. The program contains a brief description of the original autograph manuscript which notes that it is contained in 16 notebooks written on the recto of each leaf, begun in 1911 and finished in 1914. âMaughamâs longest and most ambitious novel, in which âfact and fiction are inextricably mixed,â draws heavily upon the authorâs own youth, with circumstances and names scarcely alteredâ (Parker, 63). âAs early as 1911 [Maugham] had retired temporarily from the theatre to work on his long novel, Of Human Bondage. He was to correct the proofs under the admiring eyes of Desmond MacCarthy in a small hotel at Malo, near Dunkirk; the two men were drivers in an ambulance unit for which they had volunteered at the outbreak of war in 1914⦠Of Human Bondage was published in 1915. It was less noticed in wartime London than in New York, where Theodore Dreiser reviewed it with enthusiasm. It remains Maughamâs most impressive literary work, and by the time of his death [1965] was said to have sold ten million copiesâ (DNB). It was the basis for the 1934 film directed by John Cromwell starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.