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Liza Of Lambeth
by William Somerset Maugham
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in olive green cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt line drawing portrait of Liza by Henry Bishop. "Second Edition" inprint on title page and no brackets around "All rights reserved" on verso of title page. 242 pp. plus 6 pp. "Preliminary List of Mr. T. Fisher Unwin's Announcements for 1897". About very good, slightly cocked, soem soiling and a narrow strip of fade to the spine. Maugham's first book, written while he was a medical student at St. Thomas' Hospital in the Lambeth section of London. The protagonist is Liza Kemp, an 18-year old factory worker who lives with her alcoholic mother in Lambeth. A popular girl in the neighborhood, she nonetheless feels increasingly isolated; she and a married man begin seeing each other on the sly; the man rapes and punches her (domestic violence is a continuing theme the of the book) but she continues to be in love with him. She becomes pregnant but suffers a miscarriage and dies as a result.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E21379
- Title
- Liza Of Lambeth
- Author
- William Somerset Maugham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- literature, liza, london, lambeth, working class, rape, adultery, domestic violence, first book
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Spine
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- Verso
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- Cloth
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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...
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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