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Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition signed by Maugham anfd Suterland. Original slipcase and glassine dust jacket. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description : 255pages. Subjects : English fiction. Fiction in English. Literature, English novel 20th century.

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.