Books

Inscribed by Maugham on the front free endpaper of volume 1 'For Michael Alden Lange(? unreadable) a book that some day he may come to read. W. Somerset Maugham - 3 February 1949 in New York.' Right under the inscription Maugham drew a very simple nose with two eyes. Two volume set in a slip case. Signed by the illustrator John Sloan on the limitation page. Number 549 of an edition of 1500.

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.