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Of Human Bondage
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: George H. Doran Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth stamped in gilt. First edition, first issue with "help" uncorrected to p. 257 line 4. As required, no Doran monogram to CP; (the first Maugham book with this device was "The Trembling of a Leaf." ) Light rubbing to cloth edges, some scuffing to text block edge, PO name, mesh showing at gutter next to title page, but front hinge is still strong. Housed in a fine custom clamshell case. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. " Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's Ethics
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31996
- Title
- Of Human Bondage
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1915
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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