The Narrow Corner: Collected Edition of His Works
de W. Somerset Maugham
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Heinemann, 1936. Hardcover. Good. 1936. Reprinted. 293 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Boards are slightly bowed.
Sinopsis
W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He began to study medicine in London but quit to focus exclusively on writing. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists and politicians. He died in 1965.
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- Librería
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1713880960LEE
- Título
- The Narrow Corner: Collected Edition of His Works
- Autor
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Heinemann
- Fecha de publicación
- 1936
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