MAUGHAM, W. Somerset; John Sloan [Illustrator].
Of Human Bondage.
"one of the most important novels of the 20th century":The Limited Editions Club edition set of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage; signed by illustrator John Sloan
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938.
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The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Maugham’s masterpiece and one of the most important novels of the 20th century. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt numbers to the spine, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, with sixteen black and white illustrations. Boldly signed by illustrator John Sloan on the colophon page to the rear of volume two. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 222. In fine condition. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser. Illustrated by John Sloan.
“Maugham’s longest and most ambitious novel, in which ‘fact and fiction are inextricably mixed,’ draws heavily upon the author’s own youth, with circumstances and names scarcely altered” (Parker, 63). “As early as 1911 [Maugham] had retired temporarily from the theatre to work on his long novel, Of Human Bondage. He was to correct the proofs under the admiring eyes of Desmond MacCarthy in a small hotel at Malo, near Dunkirk; the two men were drivers in an ambulance unit for which they had volunteered at the outbreak of war in 1914… Of Human Bondage was published in 1915. It was less noticed in wartime London than in New York, where Theodore Dreiser reviewed it with enthusiasm. It remains Maugham’s most impressive literary work, and by the time of his death [1965] was said to have sold ten million copies” (DNB). It was the basis for the 1934 film directed by John Cromwell starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.
Of Human Bondage.
$1,400.00
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