MAUGHAM | On a Chinese Screen, 1922, inscribed

From the Library of Christian Heuer

MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET

On a Chinese Screen. William Heinemann, 1922

8vo, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY MAUGHAM on front free endpaper ("To | Edward | Wassermann | these | notes | made | in | boats, | on | the | road, | and | in | strange | towns | W. | Somerset | Maugham"), original black cloth, stamped in gilt, minor soiling to boards, spine with some fraying and loss, bumped, hinges starting

This first English edition was printed from the stereotype plates made from the American type.

LITERATURE:

Stott A28

PROVENANCE:

Edward Wasserman, presentation inscription and bookplate

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