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OF HUMAN BONDAGE
by MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Spines a little sunned, as usual. Close to Fine in a Fine slipcase especially made by the publisher for this copy and differing
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Spines a little sunned, as usual. Close to Fine in a Fine slipcase especially made by the publisher for this copy and differing slightly from the original. John Sloan. Two octavo volumes (6" x 9") bound in the original imported speckled linen with leather labels. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser. Illustrated with 16 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS by John Sloan. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered (in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy") and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 25 presentation copies. Monthly Letter laid in.
Synopsis
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. " Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's Ethics
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016630
- Title
- OF HUMAN BONDAGE
- Author
- MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
- Illustrator
- John Sloan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Spines a little sunned, as usual. Close to Fine in a Fine slipcase especially made by the publisher for this copy and differing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Signed, Limited Editions Club, Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Theodore Dreiser, Somerset Maugham, LEC, 20th Century British Literature, John Sloan
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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- Blindstamp
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- Colophon
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- Sunned
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- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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