SOMERSET MAUGHAM FIRST EDITIONS AT
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London : Willliam Heinemann, 1919. First edition : with the integral advertisements announcing Heinemann's new novels for 1919. Renegade stockbroker turned artist in London, Paris and Tahiti - Maugham's celebrated Gauguinesque tale.
Post 8vo (20cm). [iv],(264),[iv]pp. Bound in a handsome later (second half of the twentieth century) Hatchard's binding of half tan morroco, banded and gilt; top edge gilt; olive labels; marbled endpapers; text somewhat tanned, as always, but otherwise a very good copy, attractively bound. With the striking bookplate of the late Jack Hodges (1924-2014), writer and book collector.

£250

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