"LIFE IS SHORT, NATURE IS HOSTILE, AND MAN IS RIDICULOUS": FIRST EDITION OF MAUGHAM'S THE NARROW CORNER
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The Narrow Corner. London: William Heinemann, (1932). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of this novel about murder, love, and the East Indies, in scarce original dust jacket.
"The fictional summa of everything Maugham had seen and learned about the East" (Washington Post). "He puts most 21st-century novelists to shame" (Observer). Stott A44a.
Book near-fine, with slight toning to spine and spine leaning slightly. Dust jacket very good, with light rubbing, slight chipping to joints and spine ends, mild toning to spine, and some reinforcement to verso. An extremely good copy.