first edition Hardcover
1942 · Garden City, New York
by MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition, no equivalent edition was published in England. Owner's decorative bookplate on front pastedown, minimal foxing on page edges, black cloth modestly soiled, spine cocked with ends rubbed, still a very good copy in a good only edgeworn and torn dustwrapper with internal tape repair. A novel written at the request of the British Ministry of Information intended to show the effect of the war on a British family. Maugham was reportedly dissatisfied with it and made every effort to suppress future publication. Made into a film featuring Veronica Lake and Franchet Tone. *Stott 47.*. (Inventory #: 425735)