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The first American edition, published by George H. Doran in 1919. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with lettering and decorative flourishes in black. Doran emblem to title page, rear dust jacket panel prints blurbs from Heywood Broun, ( New York Tribune ) Burton Rascoe ( Chicago Tribune ) and the Philadelphia Press. Maugham's first novel after ' Of Human Bondage '; his fictionalized account of the life of Paul Gauguin. A near fine example of the book with just a trace of rubbing to the tips and a prior owner's signature. ( Jeanne Apgar ). Dust jacket very good; some uniform soiling to the white panels and very faint stains to the spine. Chips at head of spine, running shallower front the front to rear from a maximum depth of one half inch. Small triangular chip to base of front panel, and nailhead sized chip at upper outward corner.

'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.