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Garden City: Doubleday, 1963. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition. Folio. Cloth and papercovered boards in slipcase as issued. Fine in a near fine slipcase with a couple of small scrapes. Colorplates of the art Maugham collected in his travels with the stories of their acquisition. A handsome volume and uncommon in this condition.

London: Heinemann. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto cloth, stamped in gilt. Well illustrated with 37 plates in color. The lower fore corners are bumped, otherwise very clean and tight. Interior is unmarked. The dust jacket has some wear and a couple of tears along the spine. Clear tape to two… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 28pp. Illustrated with color plates. Slight foxing on topedge, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a short tear on the cover, and light creases on the spine. Color plates of the art Maugham collected in his travels with the stories of their acquisition.

London: Heinemann, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarto. 28pp. Illustrated with color plates. Pertinent newspaper clippings laid in causing offsetting on front endpapers, else near fine in a fine dust jacket. Color plates of the art Maugham collected in his travels with the stories of their acquisition.

Garden City:: Doubleday,. Very Good. 1963. Hardcover. 38 tipped-in color plates. First American edition. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down, else very good in black cloth and red paper covered boards. No dust jacket. .

London: Heinemann, 1962. Hardcover, first edition, with clipped dust jacket. Includes 37 full colour illustrations. Wear to jacket edges, sunning to spine and chipped spine head. Scoring and marks to front and rear covers. Faint marks to front and rear board and score to both as well. Light foxing to prelims and final few pages. Binding is sound and illustrations… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York (Doubleday & Company), 1963.. 92pp., 37 plates. Lrg. 4to. Boards, 1/4 cloth. Slipcase.

Heinemann, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Small tear on jacket and marked.Light tanning.Well bound.Very good copy.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Heinemann, 1962. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 37 color plates, from the author's collection of 19th and 20th century paintings. 4to, black cloth, d.w. London: Heinemann, (1962). First Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/>

Doubleday, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Very large, thinner book, 92 pages. Black cloth spine, rose boards, with gilt symbol at center front, gilt bright on spine, tipped-in color portrait of Maugham by Edouard MacAvoy. Maugham discusses his own art collection, with plates in color. Slight bow to book, slight surface wear… Read more about this item

London, Heinemann, 1962.. viii+28+xxxvii colour plates. 4to. Original cloth in dustwrapper, faint offsetting to endpapers. A very good copy.. First edition.