Books

London: William Heinemann, 1919. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first issue with four pages of ads, including one ad for six, rather than seven titles by Eden Philpotts. Cheap paper browned as always, else a very good copy in near very good first issue dust jacket lacking the bottom 1½" of the spine, but which is otherwise very good. A nice copy of one of Maugham's masterpieces, without restoration. Exceptionally scarce in jacket.

'The Moon and Sixpence' is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, based loosely on the life of the artist Paul Gauguin. It tells the story of unremarkable, Charles Strickland, who suddenly gives up his job, family and familiar surroundings to concentrate on painting, giving up everything in the search for authenticity.