xv + 136pp. Quarter vellum hardcover binding with dust jacket. Gilt lettering on leather slip fixed to spine. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges deckled. Condition: DJ: Good. DJ has been covered with protective Brodart plastic sleeve after photos were taken. Light edgewear to DJ, sunning to spine and section of front of DJ, DJ has been price-clipped. Book: Very good. Slight yellowing to endpapers and pastedowns of book. Else fine. Text clean, solidly bound.
Limited edition of 1000 copies, signed by the author.
Liza of Lambeth (originally published in 1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while he was a medical student and obstetric clerk at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth, then a working-class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives with her ageing mother in the fictional Vere Street off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liza_of_Lambeth)
London: William Heinemann, 1947
Size: 8vo (22,8 x 15,2cm)
- Jacket Condition: Good
- Binding Condition: Very Good
