Author: MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
Title: Of Human Bondage
Description: New York, The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Light green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 760pp, (2pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Faintest of jacket wear to edges; ownership signature on half-title page and at top of one text page. Handsome, tight later (ca. early 1950s) printing of Modern Library #176, first published by them in 1930 -- the British novelist's 1915 autobiographical novel. This copy bears a choice autograph addition: In 1946 one of several film versions was released, and this copy bears tipped to the blank leaf facing the title page a unique frontispiece -- the signature of one of its co-stars. JANIS PAIGE (1922-2024), who portrays Sally Athelny, signs a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" large and bold in red fineline, dating it 5 November 1984 at upper right. Laid in is the perfect bookmark: Collings’ original transmittal envelope. .
Keywords: British Literature
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Title: Of Human Bondage
Description: New York, The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Light green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 760pp, (2pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Faintest of jacket wear to edges; ownership signature on half-title page and at top of one text page. Handsome, tight later (ca. early 1950s) printing of Modern Library #176, first published by them in 1930 -- the British novelist's 1915 autobiographical novel. This copy bears a choice autograph addition: In 1946 one of several film versions was released, and this copy bears tipped to the blank leaf facing the title page a unique frontispiece -- the signature of one of its co-stars. JANIS PAIGE (1922-2024), who portrays Sally Athelny, signs a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" large and bold in red fineline, dating it 5 November 1984 at upper right. Laid in is the perfect bookmark: Collings’ original transmittal envelope. .
Keywords: British Literature
Price: US$ 100.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50894
- Book number: 50894
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