Stott identifies two issues, this copy belongs to the second with a cancel leaf on p. 7 correcting line 12: "I don't not eat bread..." For first issue it should read "I do not eat bread..."A noted difference is that in the second paragraph in chapter…
The play was first published in November 1928, by Doubleday, Doran & Company. The UK edition came out later in February 1929. So, strictly speaking, the US edition is the first edition. This is also the first play published after the merger…
This is the programme that accompanied the presentation of the autograph manuscript of Of Human Bondage to the Library of Congress. It was acquired together with Of Human Bondage with a Digression on the Art of Fiction (1946).The programme contains…
Maugham mentions the novel in The Summing Up as one of his experiments:
I tried various experiments. One of them at that time had a certain novelty. The experience of life I was forever eagerly seeking suggested to me that the novelist's method of…
"This Renaissance tale was Somerset Maugham's second novel. It was first published in 1898, when the author was twenty-three, and has been out of print and practically forgotten for years. Shortly after its publication, Maugham made every effort to…
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.
In catalogues this is often put as first edition published in 1908, which is not true, as can be verified by the other books listed as by the same author, including Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), and The Trembling of a…
This must be the first book with which Maugham got himself into trouble. Aleister Crowley, the model of the infamous Oliver Haddo, was upset when he found himself portrayed so realistically in the novel. Though initially Maugham denied it, in a later…
