[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited true First Edition of THE RAZOR'S EDGE by W.S. Maugham beautifully bound
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Wed Nov 28 09:00:30 EST 2007
From our list of 72 items in our new Fall catalogue now posted on our
web site: http://www.erols.com/agvent. Also in the catalogue are fine
Signed Presidential and Literary items, Early Printed Books, and our
usual selection of the unusual.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. THE RAZOR'S EDGE. Garden City: Doubleday
Doran 1944. First Edition. The true First Edition published on 18
April 1944. The First American Trade Edition was published two days
later, and the First English Edition was not published until July
1944. Number 689 of 750 numbered copies SIGNED by the author of this
modern classic. Issued without a dustwrapper but with a slipcase,
this copy has been beautifully rebound in full crimson morocco with
gilt rules and retaining the original morocco spine label. Made into
a film in 1946 starring Tyrone Power and again in 1984 starring,
surprisingly, Bill Murray as the main character in quest of the
meaning of life. Beautifully bound and about Fine in a Fine, later
slipcase. $2500.00
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