Cakes Ale by Maugham, Signed (31 results)

Quarter Leather in Slipcase. Condition: Fine (Book Condition). With an Original Lithograph and Decorations By Graham Sutherland (illustrator). Limited Edition #514/1000. No Date: circa 1954. Signed by W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Sutherland. Both book and slipcase in Fine condition. [ Our rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ]. Signed By Author and Artist.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed on the front free endpaper 'For Fred A house in which there is a lot about - W Somerset Maugham.' Small tears to edges of the dust jacket, small pieces missing from the edges of the dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is limited edition number 473 of 1000 copies produced and has been signed by both the author and illustrator on the limitation page. The boards are in poor state, but internally, the pages within are fine and complete. A good candidate for rebinding. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Blue cloth boards and cream leather spine in Very Good condition. Top edge in gold leaf. untrimmed page edges. Black leather title label to spine with gold lettering.Light scuff marks to spine. Complete with original slip case. This is a Limited Edition copy of 1000 signed by both the Author and the Artist. This is Number 68. It has the original lithograph and decorations by Graham Sutherland. The four pages preceding the preface are facsimile reproductions of the first and last two pages of the original manuscript of Cakes ans Ale. Two Hundred and Fifty Five (255) Pages, partly uncut. A bright clean copy.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: FINE. First Edition. 8vo, full dual tone leather, Navy Morocco over boards backed in cream Ecru with gilt stamped navy spine label and gilt ruled transition, top edge gilt, deckled fore and tail, with frontispiece portrait by Graham Sutherland and original lithograph in red and black of the corrected manuscript. SIGNED by Maugham and Sutherland and hand numbered '825' of an edition limited to 1000 copies. Head of spine nicked, typical offsetting to endpapers beyond the DJ, else FINE in original acetate dust wrapper which is torn through the spine; in FINE publisher's navy slipcase. Leaves unopened.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sutherland, Graham (illustrator). Limited Edition. 255 pages, 8vo. Limited Edition of 1000 copies, of which this is no.627. Signed by author W. Somerset Maugham and illustrator Graham Sutherland on Limited page. Includes an original lithograph and decorations by Graham Sutherland. Four pages preceding preface are facsimile reproductions of the first and last two pages of the original manuscript of Cakes and Ale. This volume has been rebound in red leather boards with gilt lettering along spine, two raised bands along spine, marbled endpapers and inside covers. Shelfwear: light rubbing along edges and cover boards, some light foxing along cover edges. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good-plus condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Autographed first edition. Includes a letter or authenticity. Spine is darkened and cover is faded. Wrapped for protection. Inside is in great condition. ; 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"; 308 pages; Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Limited edition of 1000 copies only of which this is no. 179. Octavo, pp. xii, 255, [1]. With frontispiece portrait of the author and black and white illustrations by Graham Sutherland, with 3 facsimile leaves of the original manuscript to preface. Bound in two-tone cream and navy blue calf over boards, gilt fillets paralell to spine, black morocco spine label with gilt title, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Very minor light scuffs to binding, gilt bright. Free from ownership marks or inscriptions. A near fine copy. Boldy signed by both Maugham and Sutherland to the limitation leaf. This Delicious satire of London's inter-war Literati, originally serialised in Harper's Magazine from March to July 1930, was Maugham's personal favourite of all the books he had written.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Special Edition. Number 158 of 1,000 copies on hand-made paper signed by the author and artist. Title-page and facsimile leaves in red and black. Blue morocco sides, vellum back with black morocco label, titled in gilt, gold top. One leaf slightly creased. A near fine copy in like slipcase. Lithography at the Curwen Press. Signed by Author(s).

First Modern Library edition of Maugham's classic satire. Small octavo, original publisher's cloth, patterned endpapers. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the title page: Raymond Chandler 6925 Neptune Place La Jolla, California. Subsequently from the library of Chandlerâs personal secretary, fiancà , and muse Jean Vounder-Davis, with her ownership inscription opposite the title page. Raymond Chandler was a pivotal figure in 20th-century American literature, renowned for his contributions to the hardboiled crime genre. His work, particularly through the chronicles of private detective Philip Marlowe, provided a nuanced examination of moral ambiguity, societal corruption, and the complexities of justice. Chandlerâs novels, including The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely, explored themes of class, power, and alienation, while also engaging with the conventions of noir fiction. Marked by its economy of language and careful attention to atmosphere, his writing elevated the detective genre, merging literary qualities with the structural elements of crime fiction. His literary legacy remains central to ongoing academic discourse in the fields of literature, cultural studies, and criminology. Chandler moved to California in the 1920s, eventually settling in La Jolla, a coastal community in San Diego County. His time in California, particularly in La Jolla, had a significant influence on his writing. The stark contrast between the regionâs natural beauty and the social complexities of its urban centers shaped the settings and themes in his works. Very good in a very good dust jacket. A critical examination of social conventions, literary culture, and the complexities of personal identity in early 20th-century England, Maughamâs Cakes and Ale is narrated by William Ashenden, a writer who reflects on his interactions with Rosie Driffield, a woman involved in a scandal. The title, referencing a line from Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night, suggests the pursuit of life's simple pleasures. The novel examines the divide between public image and private reality, highlighting the conflict between traditional morality and modern, more liberated values.

1st edition, early printing SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page ("For ___, In memory of that wonderful week in California. W. Somerset Maugham") Very good/very good (book spine is faded; not price-clipped; binding loosening at rear hinge).

William Heinemann. 1953. LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000. SIGNED BY BOTH MAUGHAM AND SUTHERLAND, this being number 47. Bound in quarter vellum, blue cloth boards.Top edge gilt. Portrait frontis and decs by Sutherland. Four pages of facsimile pages from the original manuscript. Endpapers slightly browned. Slight marks to boards otherwise a clean and fresh copy in a slightly worn and spotted slipcase.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Sutherland, Graham (illustrator). With an original lithograph & decorations by Graham Sutherland. xii, 255 pages. Tall 8vo, ecru leather spine over navy blue leather boards, black leather spine label; uncut edges, top edges gilt. London: Heinemann, [1953/4]. Deluxe Limited Edition, published to celebrate Maugham's 80th birthday. A near fine clean copy, lacking the original board slipcase. Number 763 of 1000 copies, signed by both the author and the artist.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Sutherland, Graham (illustrator). Limited. With an original lithograph & decorations by Graham Sutherland. xii, 255 pages. Tall 8vo, white leather spine over navy blue leather boards, black leather spine label; uncut edges, top edges gilt. London: Heinemann, [1953/4]. Deluxe Limited Edition, published to celebrate Maugham's 80th birthday. A very good(+) clean copy -- fine but for some minor wear at foot of spine, protected in publisher's plain board slipcase, worn. Number 109 of 1000 copies, signed by both the author and the artist.

First American Edition, First Printing. This copy belonged to song lyricist Ira Gershwin and is signed by him on the front flyleaf. Some flaking of lettering on spine cloth, some light rubbing to boards, a touch of fraying at top of spine, corners slightly bumped, else a very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some tiny chipping and general light wear.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Graham Sutherland (illustrator). Special Edition. 8vo. Quarter cream calf with black gilt lettered label over blue calf.Housed in black cardboard slipcase.Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies only signed by the author and the Illustrator on the limitation page. This being number 998. Edition done for Maugham's 80th birthday with famous lithograph by Sutherland. He lived until 92. Some wear and spotting to delicate leather but still nice. Slipcase a bit edge-worn. This was the author's favourite book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Cream and navy calf with leather spine label, TEG. Limited edition # 444 of 1000 signed by Maugham and artist Graham Sutherland to the limitation page. Faint trace of rubbing to leather else fine condition in lightly worn original slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: fine/good/very good. Limited edition. Octavo. (9" x 6 1/4") 255pp. This is copy #721 of a total edition of 1000 copies. Signed by Maugham and illustrator Graham Sutherland. With an original lithograph and decorations by Graham Sutherland. the four pages preceding the preface are facsimile reproductions of the First and Last two pages of the original manuscript of Cakes and Ale. Glassine wrapper around book. In partial tan dust jacket (lacking spine of jacket) In slipcase.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Graham Sutherland (illustrator). Special Edition. 8vo. Quarter cream calf with black gilt lettered label over blue calf. Housed in black cardboard slipcase.Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies only signed by the author and the Illustrator on the limitation page. This being number 484. Edition done for Maugham's 80th birthday with famous lithograph by Sutherland. He lived until 92. The white leather is very gently rubbed in one small spot near the foot of the spine, otherwise this book is a fine copy, remarkably clean and in excellent condition, with the original glassine wrapper.

First edition thus: illustrated by Graham Sutherland. Octavo. pp xii, 255. Eight page Preface by the author, specially written for this edition. Numerous decorations, mainly in the form of tailpieces, by Graham Sutherland. Reproductions of the first and last pages of the original manuscript of the novel. Two-tone full calf binding. Top edge gilt.One of 1000 numbered copies signed by author and artist and in a special binding.Fine. Lacking the original slipcase but preserved in a fine custom-made, fleece-lined folding cloth box with green morocco backstrip and raised bands, gilt rules.

Quarter Leather in Slipcase. Condition: Fine (Book Condition). With an Original Lithograph and Decorations By Graham Sutherland (illustrator). Limited Edition #514/1000. No Date: circa 1954. Signed by W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Sutherland. Both book and slipcase in Fine condition. [ Our rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ] Size: 8vo. Signed By Author and Artist. Book.

First edition, first issue with "won' " for "won't" page 147, line 14. INSCRIBED BY MAUGHAM with his customary flourish on half-title page beneath the printed title: "by/ W. Somerset Maugham/ The author's favorite novel &/ the one he most enjoyed writing." Very good or better with foxing to first and last several leaves and cloth mildly rubbed; in very good or better, lightly soiled dust jacket with slight tanning to spine, tiny hole in rear spine fold and old internal tape reinforcement to spine ends and corners.

First Edition. First Issue. Signed presentation copy from Maugham to Harpo Marx. Inscribed by the author: ÒFor Harpo Marx, W. Somerset Maugham, this book which I like myselfÓ. From the library of Harpo Marx, the great clown of the Marx Brothers comedy team, and his wife actress Susan Fleming Marx, former member of the Ziegfeld Follies and star of early talking films like Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields. Near fine copy with a hint of edge wear in a near fine dust jacket with some minor repair to the top edge by an expert paper conservationist. With a charming bookplate illustrated by Susan Marx with a drawing of Harpo in his comic character which reads: ÒFROM THE LIBRARY OF HARPO & SUSAN MARX.Ó Harpo Marx first became friends with Maugham in the late 1920s when Alexander Woollcott took Harpo to MaughamÕs home, the Villa Mauresque, on the French Riviera.

First Edition. Limited edition signed by Maugham anfd Suterland. Original slipcase and glassine dust jacket. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description : 255pages. Subjects : English fiction. Fiction in English. Literature, English novel 20th century. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Limited edition signed by Maugham anfd Suterland. Original slipcase and glassine dust jacket. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description : 255pages. Subjects : English fiction. Fiction in English. Literature, English novel 20th century. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Signed first edition of Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 308pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, bumped corners and edges, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.00 retail price on front flap, tape repairs to verso, soiling to edges and spine, a very good example. Signed by the author on half-title, "For H.L. Barlow / Thanking him for wishing me to write my name in my favorite book. W. Somerset Maugham." William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English writer with a myriad of plays and novels published by the start of his popular success in 1914. He served in World War I as a member of the British Red Cross driving ambulances, and he wrote his best-known piece Of Human Bondage (1915) in his spare time. In 1950, when the Modern Library's edition of Cakes and Ale was published, Maugham wrote "I am willing enough to agree with common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work . But the book I like best is Cakes and Ale . because in its pages lives for me again the woman with the lovely smile who was the model for Rosie Driffield.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "Cakes and Ale" by William Somerset Maugham. William Heinemann, London. 1930 first UK edition first printing. Signed presentation inscription from the author to C. W. Dawes (collector of erotica, bibliographer and writer) to endpaper, scattered spotting, original cloth, light fading to spine, spine ends and corners a little rubbed and bumped, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, light browning to spine, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, very short closed tear to foot of upper panel, some light spotting and slight surface soiling but an excellent example overall. Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character Rosie Driffield, whose frankness, honesty, and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative propriety. Her character is treated favourably by the book's narrator, Ashenden, who understands that she was a muse to the many artists who surrounded her, and who himself enjoyed her sexual favours. In his introduction to a Modern Library edition, published in 1950, Maugham wrote, "I am willing enough to agree with common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work . But the book I like best is Cakes and Ale . because in its pages lives for me again the woman with the lovely smile who was the model for Rosie Driffield. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST. SIGNED LIMITED IN SLIPCASE. VERY GOOD. Original green cloth, cover and spine labels; slipcase. First American Edition. Signed by Maugham on blank page at front. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR - AN ASSOCIATION COPY. First UK Edition. First Edition First State with typo "won" on page 147 line 14. Publisher's mid-blue cloth binding blocked in gilt and black. Text block a little toned but with none of the usual spotting to the first and last few pages of the book overall a near fine (or slightly better) copy with bright boards, very clean internally and gilt really bright. The book is inscribed to Edward Wassermann the prominent banker, collector and philanthropist who was the subject of a famous portrait by Salvador Dali. "For/ Edward Wassermann/ The Blackstable of this/ book is Whitstable & the/ house Driffield ended his days in stands between/ Whitstable &/ Swalecliffe. / W. Somerset Maugham". Wassermann had several books inscribed to him by Somerset Maugham and there was clearly a close friendship between them. In a lovely example of the D/W (priced 7/6 net to the spine as called for). which is crisp and fine with some trivial edge-wear and one short (1/2 inch) tear to the top edge of the front panel. An excellent example of Maugham's favourite novel 'because in its pages lives for me again the woman with the lovely smile who was the model for Rosie Driffield'. Provenance: With the book-plate of Edward Wassermann partially affixed to the front paste-down which shows a patch of old glue residue to the top 2 cm from when it was initially put in. Photographs/scans available upon request. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. This copy is authentically SIGNED by W. Somerset Maugham on a photograph of the author laid in the book. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is in excellent shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author. We buy W. Somerset Maugham First Editions. Signed by Author(s).