SOMERSET MAUGHAM, William (1874-1965). Liza of Lambeth, London, 1947, large 8vo, original vellum-backed paper boards, dust-jacket. NUMBER 288 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. "Jubilee Edition."

SOMERSET MAUGHAM, William (1874-1965).  Liza of Lambeth. London: William Heinemann, 1947. Large 8vo (220 x 145mm). Half title, title printed in red and black. Original vellum-backed decorated pink paper boards, top edges gilt, others uncut, dust-jacket with price of "Two guineas net" unclipped (jacket with a small piece torn away from head of backstrip, some fraying to upper edge, clean tear to lower turn-in). NUMBER 288 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The "Jubilee Edition", published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of the author's first novel in 1897. "His first novel, Liza of Lambeth, which belonged to the 'new realist' school of G. A. Moore, drew on [the author's] experiences of slums and Cockney life as an obstetric clerk. It was the beginning of a long and prolific career ..." (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Drabble, 1985). Stott A Bibliography of the Writings of W. Somerset Maugham A1f.