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Of Human Bondage (1938) – Illustrated Edition
Of Human Bondage by Maugham & Sloan - Limited Editions Club (1938)Of Human Bondage. 2 vols. Illus. John Sloan. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser. New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1938.I have been quite curious about the illustrated editions of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. There were two, as far as I know, published during his life time; one done by Randolph Schwabe in 1936 and another, very closely, two years later by John Sloan in 1938. My interest was furthered aroused when…
W. Somerset Maugham: Four Short Stories Illustrated with Drawings by Henri Matisse
W. Somerset Maugham Four Short Stories Illustrated with Drawings by Matisse, 1970W. Somerset Maugham: Four Short Stories Illustrated with Drawings by Henri Matisse
cover decorated with Habor at Collioure (1906) (Kansas City: Hallmark Cards, 1970)
Browsing at a book store the other day I found this neat little volume (12cm x 20cm). I don't remember the last time I browsed at a bookstore with satisfactory profit, and thus I am very happy to have got a few things this time for a change.
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The Moon and Sixpence Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele and Paul Gauguin - W. Somerset Maugham
Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele and Paul Gauguin By W. Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence (New York: The Heritage Press, 1941)I just got hold of this beautiful illustrated edition of The Moon and Sixpence. In the catalogue online when I bought it it was dated as 1919, which is not accurate, since it is published in 1941. At first I thought that it could be an earlier edition than the one mentioned in Stott.
Besides the main text, at the beginning a series of correspondence is included as…