MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET. Of Human Bondage, [1915]. Spine dull, inner hinges cracked, gutters of front free endpaper and "Works By" page reinforced with scotch tape. First English Edition (following the American by a day), inserted ads at end, INSCRIBED: "...This is by way of being an autobiographical novel, but it is a novel & fiction has as [much?] a place in it as [facts?]..." -- The Moon and Sixpence, 1919. Some light rubbing, rear cover a trifle soiled, front inner hinge tender, the cheap paper browned as usual. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, INSCRIBED: "This book is of course founded on the legend of Paul Gaugain. I spent the year of 1904 in Paris among painters of my acquaintance...& heard Gaugin talked about. I saw that there was in his story the subject for a novel, but it was not till 1916 that I was able to go to Tahiti & get the materials I felt was needed..." -- Cakes and Ale, [1930]. Covers a little bowed. FIRST EDITION, the variant state with "t" missing on p. 147, line 14, INSCRIBED: "...People often ask me which is my favourite book, & they are surprised when I tell them that it is this one. They don't know what...recollections it brings back to me..." All London, published by Heinemann. Together 3 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, uniform blue half morocco slipcases. EACH INSCRIBED BY MAUGHAM to James Spencer in teal ink on front free endpaper. Stott A22a, A23, A41. (3)