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First edition, first issue, in the scarce jacket. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered and blocked in black. With dust jacket. Bookplate of J. E. Barton (1875-1959), headmaster and critic. Spine rolled, an exceptional copy in the jacket with toned spine and 8.5 cm closed tear to front flap fold. Stott A22.a.

About The Moon and Sixpence

'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.