Books

Cloth with some soiling and gilt lettering to spine dulled, but a very good copy. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "14th October 1946 by W. Somerset Maugham for J.J. Hawksford", with, loosely inserted, a Typed Note signed by the author, Dorchester Hotel, 12 October 1946, with envelope, to Hawksford, agreeing to sign the book if he leaves it at the hotel First English Edition (without the advertisements, no priority).

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.