MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET. Penelope, 1912, a corner bumped, cloth case; The Land of Promise, 1922, First Published Edition, inscribed: "...Did you know that in order to get the atmosphere for this play I went to stay on a farm in Canada?..."; East of Suez, 1922, bookplate stain; Our Betters, 1924, slight stain on rear cover, inscribed with a 13-word quotation from the play; The Letter [1927], inscribed: "...A play written by accident because the other dramatisations of the story were so bad"; The Constant Wife, 1929, non-first edition, inscribed: "The author's favourite play..."; The Bread-Winner [1930], usual second issue; For Services Rendered, 1932, inscribed with a 4-word quotation from the play; Sheppey, 1933, inscribed: "The author's last play..."; all London: Heinemann, together 9 vols., small 8vo & 8vo, original cloth (mostly red), FIRST EDITIONS except as noted, EACH INSCRIBED BY MAUGHAM to Edward Wassermann on front free endpaper. Maugham's plays were issued simultaneously in cloth and in wrappers (the proportion of cloth to wrappers being one in three). With the Wassermann bookplate in each vol. (9)