Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday Doran & Company, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Maugham has lined out his printed name on the title page and SIGNED below it, added "for Alfred Kaiser", and added November 20th below the 1941 date at the bottom of the page. Some browning to the gutters else very good in a very good dustjacket with light edgewear. Not priceclipped and no markings. (shelf)
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1941.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1/515 copies (#433) signed by the author. The cover shows light edgewear with a small rubbed spot and light fading to the spine. The binding is sound. There is a bookplate pasted inside the front cover,
Seller: Dogwood Books, Rome, GA, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc., NY, 1941.
Price: US$349.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rose cloth, leather spine label titled in gilt, TEG, beveled board edges. Limited edition #309/500 flat signed by Maugham to the limitation page. Spine panel lightly toned, minor damage to front gutter, front hinge slightly spread with mesh showing, although still strong. Frontis portrait. Endpages slightly darkened, textblock edge a bit foxed. No slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 272 pp, b&w photo frontis, stated First Edition, limited to 515 & signed by the author. Binding tight & square, pages clean and unmarked, cover cloth Near Fine, with slight fade to spine. gilt top edge. "Newbegin's" bookstore stamp at top hinge rear pastedown. cardbaord slipcase barely holding together. 6.1" x 8.6" red cloth boards. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.. Strictly Personal.. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 272 pp. 8vo, publisher's bevelled cloth. First edition; No. 497 of 505 copies, signed by W. Somerset Maugham. Slightly over-opened just after and before the endsheets at beginning and end of text block; spine very slightly tanned with light use at extremities (one corner a little bumped); still, tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc., NY, 1941.
Price: US$449.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Brick red cloth with leather spine label titled in gilt, TEG. Limited edition #106 of 515 signed by Maugham to the limitation page. Frontis photo. One corner faintly nudged, slight hint of sunning to spine else tight and square in VG publisher's slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Maugham, William Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First and Limited edition, no. 40 of 515 numbered copies SIGNED by Maugham. 1 vols. 8vo. This special limited edition was issued two days before the American trade edition. Stott A60a Original plum buckram boards with beveled edges, black leather spine label, t.e.g. Spine slightly faded, otherwise a fine copy, in original mulberry paper slipcase First and Limited edition, no. 40 of 515 numbered copies SIGNED by Maugham.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. , 1941.
Price: US$610.21 + shipping
Description: First trade edition. 8vo. Original black cloth decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. Garden City New York, Doubleday Doran and Co. First trade edition, published two days after the American limited edition. This is a fine copy, in a good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page and additionally inscribed 'For Eddie William S. writes his name' to Edward Wasserman with his bookplate designed by Marie Laurencin.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 272pp. Maroon cloth, title on label affixed to spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Light sunning to spine, touch of wear to label on spine. In the publisher's maroon slipcase, all seams worn, some loss along edges, stable condition. From a limited edition of 515 copies, this being number 180, signed by the author. William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English writer with a myriad of plays and novels published by the start of his popular success in 1914. He drove ambulances in World War I as a member of the British Red Cross, and in his spare time, he wrote his best-known piece, Of Human Bondage (1915).
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. STRICTLY PERSONAL. Doubleday Doran, 1941.
Price: US$728.35 + shipping
Description: STRICTLY PERSONAL, Doubleday, Doran, 1941, first edition, spine just a bit lightened, else fine without dust-wrapper as issued in vg+ slip-case. 1/515 specially bound copies SIGNED by the author.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Red cloth with black title label. The slightest of fading to spine, else fine in fine, faintly sunned publisher's slipcase. First U.S. edition, one of 515 copies, signed by the author.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Maugham, William Somerset. Strictly Personal. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First and Limited edition, no. 257 of 515 numbered copies SIGNED by Maugham. 1 vols. 8vo. Stott A60a Original plum buckram boards with beveled edges, black leather spine label, t.e.g. Spine slightly faded, otherwise a fine copy, in a custom vellum-tipped slipcase First and Limited edition, no. 257 of 515 numbered copies SIGNED by Maugham.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET.. Strictly Personal. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; limited issue; one of 550 numbered and signed copies. Bookplate; a fine copy in a lightly worn and faded publisher's slipcase. This issue preceded both the American trade and English first editions. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET.. Strictly Personal. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; limited issue; one of 550 numbered and signed copies. A fine copy in a very good publisher's slipcase. This issue preceded both the American trade and English first editions. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.