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Florence: G. Orioli, 1932. Hardcover. Small 4to. Cream cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards. 109pp. Frontispiece portrait. Near fine. Item #33782
Tight, handsome first separate edition of this "Cosmopolitan" story with an incestuous theme. Number 9 in "The Lugarno Series," limited to 725 copies on handmade paper (this copy unnumbered) -- signed large and bold by Maugham in blue fountain pen below his frontispiece portrait. Completely uncut. Sans dust jacket, else an exceptionally clean and attractive copy.
Price: $400.00
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