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Cakes and Ale or The Skeleton in the Cupboard by Maugham, W. Somerset - 1930
by Maugham, W. Somerset
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Cakes and Ale or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
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London: Heinemann, 1930. First edition, variant state of p. 147 with the 't' not mssing (no precedence established -- "both states issued simultaneously", according to Stott). [4], 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original publisher's blue cloth. Very good in somewhat worn and soiled dust jacket with small chip from head, a few small tears. First edition, variant state of p. 147 with the 't' not mssing (no precedence established -- "both states issued simultaneously", according to Stott). [4], 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. After Of Human Bondage, Cakes and Ale is probably Maugham's finest novel, and certainly one of his most popular. Of it, Maugham wrote: "The book I like best is Cakes and Ale. It was an amusing book to write". Notes the author's biographer: "His [output] had its ups and downs. Cakes and Ale was one of the ups. He went on writing for another thirty years but never matched it in style or structure. It was a pity that the scandal surrounding the models for the main characters drew the attention of the literary community away from the book's real merit." Today, of course, it is those models who provide the fun: Driffield, the Grand Old Man of Letters (Thomas Hardy), and the writer-on-the-make Alroy Kear, a highly unflattering portrait of the novelist Hugh Walpole, who never forgave Maugham for writing his most malicious--but also his funniest--book. Stott A40a
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- Date Published 1930
- Keywords British | W. Somerset Maugham
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Cakes and Ale or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
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Penguin Books; William Heinemann Ltd, 1948. Paperback. Acceptable. 1948. First Penguin Edition. 221 pages. Paperback book with orange cover. Pages are moderately tanned with minimal foxing. Mild cracking to front hinge, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to first page. Mild thumb-marking present. Paper cover has mild edge wear with mild corner curling. Moderate water stains to front cover. Heavy tanning to spine, with mild tearing to ends. Notable scratching and marking to covers.
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Heinemann, 1963. Hardcover. Good. 1963. 180 pages. No dust jacket. First Published. Blue & white cloth. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
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This is a nice copy of a classic Somerset maugham novel!This is #932 of the Everyman's Library. There is a former owner's name inside.
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Avon, 1944. First Avon Printing. Avon 50. Fair to Good condition.
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Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1930. First U.S. edition bound in black buckram, sans DW; faded spine; slight forward lean; previous owners short inscription penned on ffep.; 308pp.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.
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Harmondsworth: Penguin. 203 pages, cover design by Herman Zapf, pages tanned, light rubbing to covers, (Penguin Books 651). . Good. Paperback. Reprint.. 1963.
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Hardcover. Fair. Doubleday, Doran 1930 hardcover, with full title on front cover: "Cakes and Ale: or the Skeleton in the Cupboard." Black cloth cover shows moderate edgewear, with faded spine. Binding sound. Pages unmarked. No dust jacket.
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CAKES AND ALE OR THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD
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New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1930. lettering on spine very faint. Rubbed through cloth on bottom edges, about 1/2". mildly soiled covers. Otherwise exterior is Good+. Interior is clean, tight and VG+. . Cloth. Good. Fiction.
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Cakes And Ale Or the Skeleton in the Cupboard
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London: William Heinemann. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. Second Printing. Hardcover. Missing DJ, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, light sunning to spine, discrete original dealer sticker to inside front cover, gutter cracked at half title, some foxing inside and to edges of text block. ; The November reissue of the first edition with the t in won't on line 14 of p. 147. Green cloth boards with black lettering to front cover and spine with publisher's windmill colophon on rear. Good reading copy with no names inside. ; 276 pages; Maugham's satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and misguided social snobbery. .
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