Original press photograph of W. Somerset Maugham and Glenway Wescott playing cards, 1942

by Glenway Wescott William Somerset Maugham, Serge Balkin, subject

$150 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., Circa 1942. Vintage double weight borderless press photograph of writer W. Somerset Maugham and his friend, fellow writer and American expatriate Glenway Wescott, playing cards together in 1942. PIX agency stamp crediting photographer Serge Balkin and partial printed mimeo snipe on the verso. Wescott and Maugham were lifelong friends, having first met in 1928 in the French resort town of Villefranche-sur-Mer. From the archive

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