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W. Somerset Maugham – The Casuarina Tree – First Edition SIGNED
£2,500.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘The Casuarina Tree’ by W. Somerset Maugham published by Heinemann in 1928. In the original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles. Text to front and spine still vibrant. A collection of 6 stories. A near fine book with Edward Wassermann’s bookplate to the front pastedown. Inscribed to him by Maugham on the free endpaper – “For/Edward Wassermann/thanking him for/wishing than my (?) have written in this book/W. Somerset Maugham/. Some rubbing to the edges and corners. In the supplied unclipped wrapper with 7/6 to the spine as called for. Small rough patch to the front panel and a chipping and associated chipping to the spine tips and corners.
Maugham’s eighth novel.
Edward Wassermann was a banker and philanthropist, immortalised by Salvador Dali in a portrait of 1936.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘The Casuarina Tree’ by W. Somerset Maugham published by Heinemann in 1928. In the original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles. Text to front and spine still vibrant. A collection of 6 stories. A near fine book with Edward Wassermann’s bookplate to the front pastedown. Inscribed to him by Maugham on the free endpaper – “For/Edward Wassermann/thanking him for/wishing than my (?) have written in this book/W. Somerset Maugham/. Some rubbing to the edges and corners. In the supplied unclipped wrapper with 7/6 to the spine as called for. Small rough patch to the front panel and a chipping and associated chipping to the spine tips and corners.
Maugham’s eighth novel.
Edward Wassermann was a banker and philanthropist, immortalised by Salvador Dali in a portrait of 1936.
