Cakes and Ale or The Skeleton in the Cupboard de W. Somerset Maugham - 1944

New York: New Avon Library, 1944. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. good++. Avon 50. Mass market paperback, pictorial covers. Minor edgewear, age-toned paper, a few corner chips up front. Solid. 2200 shelf

Penguin Books; William Heinemann Ltd, 1948. Paperback. Acceptable. 1948. First Penguin Edition. 221 pages. Paperback book with orange cover. Pages are moderately tanned with minimal foxing. Mild cracking to front hinge, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to first page. Mild thumb-marking present. Paper cover has mild edge wear with mild corner curling. Moderate water stains to front cover. Heavy tanning to spine, with mild tearing to ends. Notable scratching and marking to covers.

This is a nice copy of a classic Somerset maugham novel!
This is #932 of the Everyman's Library. There is a former owner's name inside.

Heinemann, 1963. Hardcover. Good. 1963. 180 pages. No dust jacket. First Published. Blue & white cloth. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 203 pages, cover design by Herman Zapf, pages tanned, light rubbing to covers, (Penguin Books 651). . Good. Paperback. Reprint.. 1963.

England: Penguin, 1968. Book. Good. Soft cover. An edge worn reading copy. Where possible small books will have postage reduced.

Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1930. First U.S. edition bound in black buckram, sans DW; faded spine; slight forward lean; previous owners short inscription penned on ffep.; 308pp.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

Hardcover. Fair. Doubleday, Doran 1930 hardcover, with full title on front cover: "Cakes and Ale: or the Skeleton in the Cupboard." Black cloth cover shows moderate edgewear, with faded spine. Binding sound. Pages unmarked. No dust jacket.

New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1930. lettering on spine very faint. Rubbed through cloth on bottom edges, about 1/2". mildly soiled covers. Otherwise exterior is Good+. Interior is clean, tight and VG+. . Cloth. Good. Fiction.

London: William Heinemann. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. Second Printing. Hardcover. Missing DJ, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, light sunning to spine, discrete original dealer sticker to inside front cover, gutter cracked at half title, some foxing inside and to edges of text block. ; The November reissue of the first edition with the t in won't on line 14 of p. 147. Green cloth boards with black lettering to front cover and spine with publisher's windmill colophon on rear. Good reading copy with no names inside. ; 276 pages; Maugham's satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and misguided social snobbery. .