Cakes and Ale or the Skeleton in the Cupboard

by W. Somerset Maugham

$550 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition, first state with won' instead of won't in line 14 of page 147. 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original publisher's blue cloth. About very good dust jacket spine toned, some scuffs. Stott A40; Clute, The Book Blinders 32. Item #310248 After Of Human Bondage, Cakes and Ale is probably Maugham's finest novel, and certainly one of his most popular. Of it, Maugham wrote: The book I like best

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