Lot 196
Maugham, W. Somerset
Auction: 10 June 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
Cakes and ale. London, [1954]. 8vo, number 24 of 1000 copies, signed by the author and the artist, original lithograph and decorations by Graham Sutherland, portrait frontispiece, original morocco gilt, rubbed, lacking dustwrapper; [Idem] A writer's notebook. London, 1949. 8vo, number 317 of 1000 copies, signed by the author, original quarter vellum gilt, t.e.g., slipcase; Priestley, J.B. Delight. London, 1949. 8vo, number 90 of 250 copies, signed by the author, original quarter vellum gilt, t.e.g., slipcase; Young, Francis Brett Jim Redlake. London, 1930. 8vo, number 185 of 275 copies, signed by the author, original blue cloth gilt, t.e.g., slipcase [tape repairs]; [Idem] Black roses. London, 1929. 8vo, number 336 of 525 copies, signed by the author, full vellum gilt, some fading to backstrip; Conrad, Joseph The secret agent. London, 1923. 8vo, number 703 of 1000 copies, signed by the author, portrait frontispiece, original quarter vellum gilt, dustwrapper, some light foxing to page edges; Drinkwater, John The collected poems of... London, 1923. 8vo, 2 volumes, number 182 of 230 copies, signed by the author, original white cloth gilt, slipcases [torn at hinges]; and 4 others (12)
Footnote
Note: All volumes inscibed in ink by David Fyfe Anderson on front endpaper.