MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Cakes and Ale.
“The crown of literature is poetry. It is the end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty”: Limited edition of W. Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale; signed by him and illustrator Graham Sutherland
Melbourne: William Heinemann Ltd, 1954.
$750.00
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Item Number: RRB-148430
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Signed limited edition of Maugham's classic satire printed for the author's eightieth birthday. Octavo, original publisher's half-leather with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece, four pages of facsimile reproductions of the first and last two pages of the original manuscript, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by the author and illustrator, Graham Sutherland, on the limitations page. One of 1,000 numbered copies, this is number 82. In very good condition. Illustrated by Graham Sutherland. Housed in a custom black board slipcase in good condition.
Cakes and Ale.
$750.00
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