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Cakes and ale: or, the skeleton in the cupboard

by MAUGHAM, W[illiam] Somerset

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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Turquoise publisher's cloth, black & gold label to top cover and spine, cloth is quite sunned, with some light soiling. An uncut copy signed by the author on fly-leaf, ownership inscription of W. Corbin Douglass dated 1930 to front paste-down. First American edition. As with many of his novels, this was also printed in installments in Harper's Bazaar, starting in the March, 1930 issue. The most favorably regarded novel by the critics, it was also apparently Maugham's favorite. Rothschild & Whiteman, V, 164; Stott, A40b; NCBEL, 4, 663.

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Bookseller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
11846
Title
Cakes and ale: or, the skeleton in the cupboard
Author
MAUGHAM, W[illiam] Somerset
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Edition
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Company
Place of Publication
Garden City
Date Published
1930
Keywords
literature, poetry, association and presentation copies

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Fly-Leaf
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Sunned
Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Publisher's cloth
A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
Paste-down
The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....

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