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. Edition unstated 1915 Sun Dial Press.
The exterior of the book is in Very Good with clean, bright boards with a strong sheen, faded title gilt on a square spine and strong gilt on the front cover, a tight binding, heavily rolled and rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and rubbed corners. No marks or inscriptions inside. The end papers and the inside pages are clean and lightly toned.
No dust jacket.
W. Somerset Maugham’s semiautobiographical masterpiece unfolds in London and Paris at the end of the 19th century. The protagonist, Philip Carey, is a sensitive orphan who’s burdened with a club foot and shunned by his schoolmates. Philip’s artistic aspirations fade with his realization of his own mediocrity, and his hopeless infatuation with Mildred, a vulgar waitress, threatens to destroy what’s left of his idealism.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
