The Trembling of a Leaf. Little Stories of the South Sea Islands

by William Somerset Maugham

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition · Signed

First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Some toning at gutter of first two leaves, tear in lower free endpaper, else a near fine copy in dust-jacket lacking two inches from foot of spine panel. Item #210698 Inscribed on the flyleaf: “For / de V. Payen Payne / W. Somerset Maugham.” One of the key early Maugham collections. Maugham got himself into a lot of controversy over some of the raw

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