W. Somerset Maugham – Cosmopolitans – First Edition 1936
£95.00
A first edition, first printing of Cosmopolitans by W. Somerset Maugham, published by Heinemann, London in 1936. A very good book without inscriptions, light bumping to lower edge of front board, rubbing to foot of the spine, spotting to top stain of text block, spotting to fore-edge and bottom edge of text block, internal spotting to prelims. in a similarly very good unclipped wrapper, with fading to the spine, chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of front and rear flop folds, heavy foxing externally and internally.
Cosmopolitans by W. Somerset Maugham is a collection of short stories set among expatriates, travellers, and social outsiders moving through Europe and beyond. With irony and restraint, Maugham explores love, ambition, disillusionment and moral compromise. The characters are often poised and worldly yet inwardly vulnerable. Through elegant prose and sharp observation, the stories reveal how sophistication can mask loneliness, self-interest and quiet desperation beneath polished social surfaces.
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A first edition, first printing of Cosmopolitans by W. Somerset Maugham, published by Heinemann, London in 1936. A very good book without inscriptions, light bumping to lower edge of front board, rubbing to foot of the spine, spotting to top stain of text block, spotting to fore-edge and bottom edge of text block, internal spotting to prelims. in a similarly very good unclipped wrapper, with fading to the spine, chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of front and rear flop folds, heavy foxing externally and internally.
Cosmopolitans by W. Somerset Maugham is a collection of short stories set among expatriates, travellers, and social outsiders moving through Europe and beyond. With irony and restraint, Maugham explores love, ambition, disillusionment and moral compromise. The characters are often poised and worldly yet inwardly vulnerable. Through elegant prose and sharp observation, the stories reveal how sophistication can mask loneliness, self-interest and quiet desperation beneath polished social surfaces.
