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Rare and modern books

Maugham, W. Somerset (Mme Emile-R. Blanchet, Translator)

L'Archipel aux sirËnes (The Trembling of a Leaf, first French edition)

Les Editions de France, 1925

195.00 €

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Year of publication
1925
Place of printing
Paris
Author
Maugham, W. Somerset (Mme Emile-R. Blanchet, Translator)
Publishers
Les Editions de France
Keyword
colelit colefrench somerset maugham
Languages
English

Description

A LARGE PAPER PRESENTATION COPY of the first French edition of Maugham's collection of South Sea Island stories, including "The Fall of Edward Barnard", which features the basic story that would later become "The Razor's Edge". 4, II, 329 pp. From a total large-paper issue comprising 45 copies printed on fine Lafuma wove paper, this is ONE OF ONLY 15 HORS-COMMERCE AD PERSONAM COPIES, this one printed for novelist Jacques Bessaignet. Signed presentation inscription from the translator to Bessaignet on the half-title. 8vo. Publisher's wraps. Uncut. Light wear to wraps, else FINE AND BRIGHT. sxxi