HARDBACK ?WITH BLANK SAILING CERTIFICATE? SIGNED BY CAPTAIN* SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Folio.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: P & O Cruises.* Binding and cover condition: Grey cloth boards, silver title to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, some fading to top and bottom edges, slight damp stain to rear board. GD++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing ISBN but no shelf price. Minor shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head of spine. A few very light impression marks. Some damp staining to interior of cover. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, grey end-papers with captain?s stamp & signature to fep. Some damp marks to rear end papers and very slight paper distortion. VG.* Illustrations: Fully illustrated in rich colour photographs throughout. Colour line drawn deck plans within text.* Pages: 128 pp. text. No index at rear.* Description: Book has stamp "Aurora maiden season". and is also complete with facsimile captains signature. "Steve Burgoine" stamp under the ships name on F.E.P.. Includes also a fine ?UNFILLED SAILING CERTIFICATE? for the 27th May to 3rd. June 2000 voyage. This is signed by the Captain on simulated vellum, thick presentation paper. A real collectors item in good condition.* A NEAR VG copy with some minor faults reduced by some dust jacket wear & damp marks to GD+*

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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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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5781
Title: Aurora: Dawn of a New Era
Author: Pownall, Garry
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG/GD++/GD
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0951432826
ISBN 13: 9780951432822
Publisher: P&O Cruises
Place of Publication: London Uk 128
Date Published: 2000-01-01

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