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The Servant.
by Maugham, Robin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Falcon Press, 1948., 1948. Hard Cover. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 69, [1]. Publishers' vivid orange cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by G.N.Fish. Spine tips lightly rubbed but cloth bright and unfaded. Endpapers partially toned; gift inscribed by the Author in the year of publication to ffep: "To John with all best regards from Robin 7 Dec 48". Contents clean and crisp. Jacket a little toned to rear white panel, and nicked & creased to edge with very small loss head of spine. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Psychological novella with four central characters, with themes of class, servitude, sexual repression and the ennui of the upper classes. Robert Cecil Romer Maugham (1916-1981), better known as Robin, was the nephew of author Somerset Maugham, and he turned to writing following a distinguished career during the Second World War; "The Servant" was his first major success, and was adapted as a film of the same name in 1963, starring Dirk Bogarde and James Fox. Scarce, particularly in the fragile post-war economy dust-jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7480
- Title
- The Servant.
- Author
- Maugham, Robin
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; Falcon Press, 1948.
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Fiction
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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