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MAUGHAM WILLIAM SOMERSET. Ashenden or the British Agent, 1928, spine a bit faded, joints slightly rubbed, inscribed: "...These stories are founded on my experience as an agent in the Secret Service during the Great War..."; The Moon and Sixpence, 1919, spine a bit faded, inner hinges tender, cheap paper browned as usual, First Issue, inscribed with a 3-line quotation from the book; The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921, inner hinges cracked, bookplate stain, First English Edition, inscribed with a phrase quoted from the book, contains the story "Rain"; On a Chinese Screen, 1922, top of spine worn, front inner hinge tender, First English Edition, inscribed in a vertical column: "...these notes made in boats, on the road, and in strange towns..."; The Casuarina Tree, 1926, edges rubbed, a bit askew in binding, inscribed with a friendly phrase, contains the story "The Letter." Connolly, The Modern Movement 53; Cakes and Ale [1930], spine slightly faded, bookplate (not present) stain, the state with dropped "t" in line 14, p. 147, inscribed with a 5-line sentence about the setting of the novel; all London: Heinemann, together 6 vols., 8vo, original cloth, FIRST EDITIONS except as noted, EACH INSCRIBED BY MAUGHAM to Edward Wassermann on front free endpaper. With the Wassermann bookplate in all but one vol. (6)