Of Human Bondage

by William Somerset Maugham

$1,000 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: George H. Doran, 1915. Literature FIRST EDITION, first impression, prior to British edition. Octavo 20 x 14cm , pp.648; 2 , blank. Publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt. Contents clean, no inscriptions, inside joints pulled/cracked as usual heavy text block , covers a little rubbed to extremities, soft vertical crease to spine. Very good indeed. Earliest state of the text, with 'help' for 'helped' p.257, line 4, and no publisher device on

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