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The Vagrant Mood: Six Essays
by W. Somerset Maugham
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. 1st/1st. VG/G. Stated First Edition. First Printing. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. Crinkle to spine head. Textblock is clean with no writing bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages lightly age-toned. Dust jacket is unclipped ($3.00) and good. Chipping to spine and upper back panel, lightly scuffed and an inch and half-closed rear to top front panel see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
A varied and colorful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, W. Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.
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 Sixpen ce 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 U p 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
- Seller
- Armadillo Alley Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 2773
- Title
- The Vagrant Mood: Six Essays
- Author
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- essays
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- First Editions;
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