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Of Human Bondage (Modern Library #176.1)
by MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. [c.1946]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of the author's semi-autobiographical novel which first appeared in 1915. "Of Human Bondage" is centered around a young man who is orphaned and has difficulty finding his way in the world or finding the love of his life. This work was named to the Modern Library list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso advertises 334 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1948 (though 1915 date appears in book). ML #176.1. --- Loosened front and rear hinges have been repaired on this item (front gutter still has exposed mull and torn paper); and with inkings & pencilings to ffep, else a tightly-bound, sound copy. Fair only, price-clipped dust jacket with numerous chips and tears but remaining mostly intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; (4), 760 pages .
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
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87728
- Title
- Of Human Bondage (Modern Library #176.1)
- Author
- MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1946]
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
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