W. Somerset Maugham – The Casuarina Tree – First Edition 1926 – INSCRIBED AND SIGNED
£875.00
A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1926. Original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles. Text printed on top cover. Text printed on spine. A collection of 6 stories by W. Somerset Maugham. A near fine book with Edward Wassermann’s bookplate to the front pastedown. Inscribed to him by Maugham on the front free endpaper (/For/Edward Wassermann/thanking him for/wishing than my(?) have written in this/book/W. Somerset Maugham/). Some rubbing the to edges and corners. Edward Wassermann was a banker and philanthropist and was immortalised by Salvador Dali in a portrait of 1936. Rare.
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A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1926. Original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles. Text printed on top cover. Text printed on spine. A collection of 6 stories by W. Somerset Maugham. A near fine book with Edward Wassermann’s bookplate to the front pastedown. Inscribed to him by Maugham on the front free endpaper (/For/Edward Wassermann/thanking him for/wishing than my(?) have written in this/book/W. Somerset Maugham/). Some rubbing the to edges and corners. Edward Wassermann was a banker and philanthropist and was immortalised by Salvador Dali in a portrait of 1936. Rare.
