Christmas Holiday
1939, first edition of Somerset Maugham's novel
Author
W Somerset Maugham
Publisher
William Heinemann, London, 1939
Printing Details
Undated [1939]. First edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in the original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 19 × 12.5cm, 289pp.
At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a cheerful disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one working in his father's business, he is looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with one of his oldest friends. Yet Paris is not what he expects—in just a few days his young eyes are opened to the tragedies and ugly dramas of its underworld.
Condition
A good reading copy. There is a little blotchy fading to the rear board and scattered foxing throughout (worse to the title page). Previous owner's neat name to the ffep.
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