The Razor's Edge

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1944. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First trade edition, first printing after a limited edition of 750 copies. Signed by W. Somerset Maugham and inscribed to a former owner in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with wear and soiling to cloth, spine lettering rubbed and spine rolled. Remnants of a formerly adhered postcard to front pastedown, pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a large chip at the head and some fraying the tail, thin stain visible from the blindside at tail. While copies of the signed limited (truncated) edition on the market are more than abundant, inscribed first trade editions are rather uncommon. (Inventory #: 140941371)