The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong -
William Somerset Maugham
1930 - William Heinemann Ltd., London - First Edition
First edition of ‘Maugham's finest travel book’.
‘As the urbane novelist wends his way through tropic climes, he reads Proust under the mosquito netting, listens to stories of passion and madness from British colonials gone to seed, and bears up under the merciless sun, sipping at a gin and bitters and laying out a hand of solitaire’ - Washington Post
An account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life. [Random House] References: Stott, A Bibliography of the Works of W. Somerset Maugham, A39a. Herbert, Burma 72.
Octavo (book size 20.8x16.2cm), pp. [6] 276 [2]. In publisher’s smooth black cloth, front panel and spine lettered in gilt, front panel blocked in gilt with author’s symbol and design of a dragon, spine blocked in gilt with design of a pagoda, rear panel with small publisher’s windmill symbol blocked in blind. Top edge cut fore and other edges uncut. Dust jacket priced ‘8s. 6d. net’ to lower portion of front flap. Condition: Near fine, slight markings to outer edge of cloth, and offsetting to endpapers, in near fine dust jacket, spine toned and with small chip to head, panels clean. Ref: 112229 Price: HK$ 6,000
‘As the urbane novelist wends his way through tropic climes, he reads Proust under the mosquito netting, listens to stories of passion and madness from British colonials gone to seed, and bears up under the merciless sun, sipping at a gin and bitters and laying out a hand of solitaire’ - Washington Post
An account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life. [Random House] References: Stott, A Bibliography of the Works of W. Somerset Maugham, A39a. Herbert, Burma 72.
Octavo (book size 20.8x16.2cm), pp. [6] 276 [2]. In publisher’s smooth black cloth, front panel and spine lettered in gilt, front panel blocked in gilt with author’s symbol and design of a dragon, spine blocked in gilt with design of a pagoda, rear panel with small publisher’s windmill symbol blocked in blind. Top edge cut fore and other edges uncut. Dust jacket priced ‘8s. 6d. net’ to lower portion of front flap. Condition: Near fine, slight markings to outer edge of cloth, and offsetting to endpapers, in near fine dust jacket, spine toned and with small chip to head, panels clean. Ref: 112229 Price: HK$ 6,000