Cosmopolitans, very short Stories.

First English edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. London, William Heinemann.

This edition published five weeks after the American edition. This copy is of the the third and usual issue (of four) - with a cancel half-title that lists nineteen non-dramatic works ending with Don Fernando, and with a cancel leaf for pages 5-6. Front free endpaper loose, otherwise a near-fine copy. This copy is inscribed and signed by Maugham on the title page - first by striking out his printed name and signing "W. Somerset Maugham", and then with "For Eddie affectionately W.M.". The front pastedown bears the bookplate (by the french artist Marie Laurencin) of Edward Wassermann - a banker and Seligman banking heir who was a major party-giver of the Harlem renaissance (his name comes up in Van Vechten's book The Splendid Drunken Twenties). Maugham inscribed numerous books to him, quite personally. In a stout, functional leatherbound folding case.

Stock Code: 130433