The Pattern of Maugham a Critical Portrait by Curtis Anthony (22 results)

Condition: good. A good reading copy. May contain markings or be a withdrawn library copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.04.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Quality Book Club Edition. Very slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. bumped corners Did Somerset Maugham's ironic description of himself as 'but a story-teller' do justice to his formidable gifts? Did he ever succeed in out-growing the attitudes of Edwardian England with its acute conscionsness of the conduct proper to a gentleman? Was he really ignored by the intelligentsia, as he often observed? These are some of the questions discussed by Anthony Curtis in this critical portrait of the writer who was the most popular literary artist of modern times. 278 pp.

Book Club Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: ix, 278 pages, 1 plate : color portrait ; 23 cm. Subjects: Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) 1874-1965 Criticism and interpretation; Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) 1874-1965; English fiction 20th century. 1 Kg.

8vo. pp: vii, 278. Original publisher's brown boards with gilt lettering at spine in original publisher's colour illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed by author at free endpaper: 'Jessie and David with warmest greetings from the author 23 - iii - 1974'.ISBN: 0241024811 Light wear visible around the edges of dust jacket. Black stain to page block. Very good indeed in very good dust jacket.

Book Club Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: ix, 278 pages, 1 plate : color portrait ; 23 cm. Subjects: Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) 1874-1965 Criticism and interpretation; Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) 1874-1965; English fiction 20th century. 1 Kg.

octavo hardcover in dustwrapper (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

8vo. pp 278 . Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, 'To Luke and Doreen, with warmest greetings from, Anthony Curtis 29-xii-1973.' Very good in slightly used, very good dust jacket. Decent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good condition. One large chip from the jacket, upper right corner (see photo) and front edge is worn through. No internal markings of any kind.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

(1974). First edition, first printing. Fine, a bright fresh copy, in green boards with gilt spine stamping; in a mildly age-toned, price-clipped dust jacket. Portrait of Maugham to jacket and frontispiece by Edouard MacAvoy. On the centenary of Maugham's birth, Curtis takes a look W.S.M.'s work as a whole and discovers in it a remarkably coherent pattern as well as an astonishing versatility. Bibliography, notes, index.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., (1974). (ix), 278 pp., with a frontispiece portriat. 12mo., original half black cloth, boards, d.j. (B).