Inscribed
The Trembling of a Leaf. Little Stories of the South Sea Islands.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Price: $2,000.00
About the item
First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Original blue cloth. Some toning at gutter of first two leaves, tear in lower free endpaper, else a near fine copy in dust-jacket lacking two inches from foot of spine panel.
Item #210698
Inscribed on the flyleaf: “For / de V. Payen Payne / W. Somerset Maugham.” One of the key early Maugham collections. Maugham got himself into a lot of controversy over some of the raw material here, which he made all too transparent in his fictional portrayals.
