The Razor's Edge.
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday-Doran.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED limited edition. Precedes British edition. Copy #402 of 750 numbered and signed copies. Very close to fine in un-faded salmon-colored buckram with black leather title plate at spine and gilt top edge. Lacking unprinted glassine overlay and original plain card slipcase, remnants of which are present but in pieces lacking the back-strip. Title label has trifle rubbing at edges but presents nicely. Small vintage book shop sticker at head of rear paste-down. Lovely fresh copy of this perennial classic in supplied clear mylar wrapper. Basis for two film adaptations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages .
Synopsis
The Razor's Edge , by W. Somerset Maugham, first published by Doubleday Doran in the United States in 1944, relates the experiences of a World War I pilot, Larry Darrell, who chooses to embrace a counter-cultural lifestyle as a way of dealing with his PTSD, though the syndrome is of course not identified as such in the book. This book challenges the cultural ideals of the 1940s, and disregards the stereotype of the returning military hero. Some controversy surrounded the publication of this book because of its lack of patriotic fervor and its embrace of bohemian ideals, but today it is regarded as one of the more important pieces of American literature from the 1940s. -
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- Bookseller
- Waverley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3114890
- Title
- The Razor's Edge.
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday-Doran.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
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- Paste-down
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- Rubbing
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- Spine
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