Liza of Lambeth
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
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About This Item
London: Heinemann. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. Red decorative boards with vellum spine, leather/gilt title label, TEG. Jubilee edition. #505 of 1000 copies signed by Maugham to the limitation page. Tight and square with slight corner wear and a small amount of foxing to ffep. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, toned to spine and nicked to edge, minor crease to rear panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Liza of Lambeth (1897) narrates Liza's last four months alive. She lives in a working-class area of London, and as the youngest of thirteen siblings she is left to look after their incompetent mother. She rejects a local suitor, but finds herself attracted to a mysterious stranger on a site-seeing trip. The novel gives insight into working-class London at the turn of the century.
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32041
- Title
- Liza of Lambeth
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...