Description
For sale is a rare and exceptional First hardcover Edition, First Printing of Cakes and Ale; or The Skeletons in the Cupboard by W. Somerset Maugham in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated 1930 Doubleday Doran.
The exterior of the book is in Very Good with clean, bright boards with a strong sheen, faded title gilt on a tilted spine and strong gilt on the front cover, a tight binding, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. No marks or inscriptions inside. The end papers and the inside pages are clean and lightly toned.
No dust jacket.
Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield’s wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist’s voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrassing shadow over his career and respectable image.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
