Books

8vo, 270pp; blue cloth. First issue -- with the letter "t" missing from the word "won't" on p. 147. The lower margins of a few pages show signs of a minor mishap in the printing or binding; near fine in a bright dust jacket.

Cakes and Ale is a satirical novel by W. Somerset Maugham, revolving around the lives, relationships, and social hypocrisies of the literary elite in England.