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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…

"To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which first appeared in September, 1897, this edition of 1,000 copies, numbered and signed by the author has been printed and made" (dust jacket front flap).

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.

"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…

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…

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 &…

This belongs to Heinemann's pocket edition, which, according to Stott, was scarce in his time. There are all together 16 volumes. They were published more or less at the same time of the Collected Edition, and are supposedly smaller and cheaper. The…

From the front flap of the dust jacket: "Mr Somerset Maugham has written a Preface to this new edition of his second novel, Mrs. Craddock, which has not been in print for many years. "He wrote it in 1900, he explains, and because it was thought…

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…

The true first is the UK edition published by Heinemann in 1907. For some reason the price is sky high for this lesser work. The novel was based on the play in the same name, written in 1899 (Stott 50). An interesting fact that I got from the seller…