Cakes and Ale; or the Skeleton in the Cupboard
de Maugham, W. Somerset
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
William Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original blue cloth stamped in gilt (has slight fading and wear; slight browning to edges). PROVENANCE: With bookplate of Robert A. Bevan, which the British Museum ascribed to Ethelbert White. 'The print is not catalogued in either of Hilary Chapman's catalogues of White's prints. However, the signature style seems to date it to the early period of White's career, around the early 1920s; White also made another wood-engraved bookplate c. 1926; see Hilary Chapman, 'Ethelbert White, 1891-1972: painter, printmaker: with a catalogue of the wood engravings' (Bicester, 2003), cat. no. 38 (information from Hilary Chapman). The bull features in the Bevan coat of arms (information from Patrick Baty). Shorthorn cattle were bred at Boxted Hall, Essex, where R A Bevan lived; see Janet Cooper (ed.), 'A History of the County of Essex': X, Lexden Hundred (Part) including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe (2001), pp. 62-64 for 'Boxted: Economic History'. White was a close friend of Bevan's parents, Robert Polhill Bevan and Stanislawa de Karlowska (information from Frances Stenlake)' (British Museum). Bevan was a prominent ad man (once described as 'the personification of the greatest days of English advertising'). He was the son of Camden School painter Robert P. Bevan, He was behind slogans such as 'Guinness is Good for You' and was the inspiration for Mr Ingleby in Dorothy L. Sayers' 1933 thriller Murder Must Advertise. The book is the 2nd state (p. 147 corrected).
Sinopsis
W. Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, Of Human Bondage (1915), and with The Moon and Sixpence (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured. His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, A Man of Honour (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with Sheppey (1933). His fame as a short-story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf , sub-titled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands , in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. W. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as On a Chinese Screen (1922) and Don Fernando (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer's Notebook (1949). W. Somerset Maugham became a Companion of Honour in 1954. He died in 1965.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 00514003
- Título
- Cakes and Ale; or the Skeleton in the Cupboard
- Autor
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- William Heinemann
- Fecha de publicación
- 1930
- Palabras clave
- Fiction Ethelbert White Wood Engraving Bookplate Robert Bevan, , , , , , , ,
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Seattle, Washington
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