MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET. Cakes and Ale. London [1930]. A fore-corner a bit bumped, dust jacked (top of spine strengthened on verso). The variant state without a missing "t" on p. 147, line 14. INSCRIBED BY MAUGHAM on the front free endpaper: "For Katherine Lowry W. Somerset Maugham." Stott A41 -- SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. London 1914. T.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly faded. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY SHAW on the half-title: "to Claude Carton from Bernard Shaw. 17th May 1914. You liked Misalliance didn't you? The recipient was most likely the playwright R.C. Carton, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on the Managerial Treaty of the Dramatic Section of the Incorporated Society of Authors (Shaw did most of the work drafting the treaty, abetted by Carton). Laurence A128a -- SHAW. Autographed note sighed (G. Bernard Shaw") to "Dear W. Manning," Ayot St. Lawrence, 5 August 1929. 1 page, oblong 12mo, on a Shaw postcard with his photograph (by Robert be Smet, Bruxlles) on recto: "Why not read a few of my books, and find out for yourself? Poems -- no, thank you," Together 2 volumes and 1 note, the books 8vo, original cloth, FIRST EDITION. (3)