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Cakes and Ale
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Benson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
NY: Modern Library, 1950. Cloth. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 272 pp. Modern Library No. 270. Green cloth. Introduction by the author for this edition. 3 pages have a light crease at the top corner; former owner's name on front endpaper.. The jacket is rubbed, lightly worn and soiled. Binding tight, text clean.
Synopsis
W. Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, Of Human Bondage (1915), and with The Moon and Sixpence (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured. His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, A Man of Honour (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with Sheppey (1933). His fame as a short-story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf , sub-titled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands , in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. W. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as On a Chinese Screen (1922) and Don Fernando (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer's Notebook (1949). W. Somerset Maugham became a Companion of Honour in 1954. He died in 1965.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Paperback Recycler
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46756
- Title
- Cakes and Ale
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- novel Fiction Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Paperback Recycler
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Benson, Arizona
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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