Randolph Schwabe Illustrator (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair hardcover, no dustcover. The text is unmarked. Covers show some edge wear with rubbings/scuffing. Spine edge wear, with the cover material loosening at the spine and a small piece of the cover material is missing at the top of the spine. Hinges cracked but binding still intact. The top page ends are gold gilt. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Satin ribbon page marker.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Publisher's Limited Edition, and First Illustrated Edition, issued simultaneously with the First Edition. One of 751 hand-numbered copies (this being No. 438) SIGNED by author W. Somerset Maugham and illustrator Randolph Schwabe. Basis for the 1934 John Cromwell film starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis. Owner bookplate on the front pastedown, backstrip lightly toned, else Near Fine in a Very Good, moderately toned dust jacket with splitting along the rear hinge (see image). In a Good to Very Good example of the publisher's card slipcase, split along the bottom edge. Signed.

Title-page and covers by Randolph Schwabe, First edition, 8vo., one of a limited edition of 320 copies on hand-made paper, total edition 400 copies, fore and lower edges untrimmed, linen backed decorative boards, gilt, The Beaumont Press, London. Head of spine bumped, the spine a little dusty, the boards a touch grubby around the edges. An account of the Author's return to the battlefields of his service in First World War.