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The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Highland, New York, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday & Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Missing dust jacket! The book is otherwise in good condition. Two stickers on the flyleaf, as pictured. No noteworthy blemishes aside from some scratching and discoloration smudges on the cover. Binding is tight. Pages crisp. No writing. ; 246 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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Details
- Bookseller
- True Oak Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- NBD-21172-A-0
- Title
- The Razor's Edge
- Author
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Date Published
- 1944
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About the Seller
True Oak Books
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Highland, New York
About True Oak Books
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True Oak Books is a proud member of the IOBA (Independent Online Booksellers Association) and adheres to their high ethical and professional standards.
In order to remain competitive with low value books and be able to offer them, we have a tiered shipping system to make low price transactions economically sound. Lower value books will ship in a protective bubble mailer, as 99% of these reach the customer without problems. We go beyond this for higher ticket items and provide box service. If your post office handles books roughly, you can request cardboard/box service for lower value items as well.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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