When Mrs. Craddock's manuscript was sent to Heinemann it was rejected for indecency. It was refused by many publishers until it went to Robertson Nicoll. He saw its potentials, but didn't think it was the type of book published by his firm, Hodder &…
Stott mentions 3 bindings, and this copy is differentiated by the top gilt edge and the spine with gold letters. It isn't clear whether this is binding (i) or (ii) as the colour, after over a hundred years, is hard to tell.
This is the first book on the cover of which Maugham had his Moorish symbol against the evil eye printed. However, it was printed upside down. When Maugham pointed this out to Hutchinson, the symbol was corrected on some copies specially bound for…
Stott mentions 3 binding variants (with different advertisements at the end of book), of which this is the second, with title in gold letters and the rest in black.
Note that this copy doesn't have square bracket enclosing "All rights reserved" and thus isn't the first issue that Stott talks about. He does mention that there are copies, like this one, with this variant, but can't be certain when they come into…
