Ashenden
by W.Somerset Maugham
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
William Heinemann, 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1934. Collected Edition (reset). 304 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Binding is shaky, pages are loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout with markings to some pages. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Creasing to some pages. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy sunning to spine and edges with medium crushing to ends causing fraying to cloth to spine. Wear marks overall. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.
Synopsis
W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He began to study medicine in London but quit to focus exclusively on writing. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists and politicians. He died in 1965.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1627973633ADA
- Title
- Ashenden
- Author
- W.Somerset Maugham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Date Published
- 1934
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...