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The Summing Up
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday. Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth. The bottom cloth/ block edge and foredge are dampstained, which only affects a few of the page margins. Cloth edges mildly insected. Endpages toned. Firm binding. The DJ in mylar is toned to spine, nicked to spine ends. Slight loss to spine end at head. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth , published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage , the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook . In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965.
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44823
- Title
- The Summing Up
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1938
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