Here and There

Here and There

W.S. Maugham

Tokyo: Kinseido Ltd.

"This book is published in Japan by arrangement / with A.P. Watt & Son through Mr. G.T. Folster."
"Publisher / William Heinemann LTD. / London"

1955

The dust jacket is banded: orange, white (off-white), orange with the title and author in a white squiggly banner surrounded by black in the top orange section, while Japanese characters are printed in black in the white area. At the bottom, surrounding a flowery cactus, is the publisher's name. The back is different. It has an orange frame around a white box with information writing in Japanese. Inside, the text is English on one flap and Japanese on the other.
The paper covers are tan with dark brown bands that cut out the lettering in the background tan for the title and author, while the publisher's information is dark brown lettering that is smeared at the bottom.
A prior owner used some kind of marker to make the top edge of the textblock red. Because the coloring has unevenly soaked into the textblock, it is possible to tell that the color was not original, and the fact that other books owned by Mrs. Engelhardt's brother Daniel Pfeifer have the same red coloring, it is assumed he added it.
All the paper, including the dust jacket, is made of wood pulp, but there is only minor darkening of the paper.
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William Somerset Maugham was an English author who wrote most of his novels and stories set in cities and focused on human psychology. He studied to be a doctor, but gave it up in order to focus on writing. During WWI he served his country as a secret agent as he was a known traveler from several years throughout Europe to promote his plays. His best known works are Of Human Bondage and The Moon and Sixpence. This work is a collection of short stoires first published in 1948. Maugham lived from 1874-1965.

Literature

SPECIAL PR6025 .A86 H44162 1955

Softcover book, 7.25 x 5.25 inches

English and Japanese

This book has another record in the "Beautiful Books" Exhibit Collection.
This book can be seen in the photograph, Display Case 8.

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