Author: MAUGHAM, W SOMERSET
Title: Selected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (Franklin Library Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Full-Leather. A deluxe leatherbound Franklin Library edition presenting a collection of 14 of the best short stories by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965). The author was a prolific playwright, novelist and short story writer. With illustrations by Guy Deel and a portrait of the author by Andrew Rhodes near front of volume. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet is included. --- Bound in rich full dark blue bonded leather covers with four raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality, buff color papers. Pale pink silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright, crisp and lacking evidence of having been read but with a couple of small indentations to back cover fore-edge.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (12), 536 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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