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Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, 1936. Cloth. First Edition. The First Illustrated Edition of this famous book. Copy #426 of 751 SIGNED by the author and by the illustrator, Randolph Schwabe. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention."[1] Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from a section of Spinoza's Ethics.[2] The Modern Library ranked Of Human Bondage #66 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. A beautiful copy in the original publisher's pictorial presentation box in excellent condition. Size: 8vo.

Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is a semi-autobiographical story about the life of a young man, Philip Carey, who struggles to find his identity and place in the world.