Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham 

First Photoplay Edition.  Garden City, NY:  Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., [1934]  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition, with a GOOD DJ under Mylar

• Black cloth covered boards show some smudges, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, scuffed.  See photos.
• Spine has gilt text effaced and is stained, faded, with crushed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure.  
• Illustrated end papers/ pastedowns have some light wear, owner's marks.  
• Interior is gently age-toned.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have a few marks.  
• DJ is nicely preserved behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper.
• DJ has wrap around band with images from the RKO film; DJ has some edgewear, chipped corners, chips at head edge and spine, bumping along foot edge, some staining to back.  See photos.  
• PS2025.0211

766 pages. 5 3/8 x 8 inches

This is the First Photoplay Edition of the 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), as issued by Garden City Publishing Company.  It features a yellow dust jacket with a wrap-around jacket band illustrated with scenes from the 1934 RKO film starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.  End papers display a patterned design and facsimile 'clippings' profiling the author and novel.  Condition is overall Very Good, with staining to the spine and darkened text block edges.  

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