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Strictly Personal
By W. Somerset Maugham
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., NY, 1943

Hardcover – Very Good condition. Tan cloth boards with black titles and decoration. Straight boards with shelfwear to edges of spine. Personal Library label on the front page. Tight binding with clean, unmarked pages. Dust Jacket shows shelf wear, chips, and clipped corners.

“In the late spring of 1940 Somerset Maugham was forced by the collapse of French forces to leave the Villa Mauresque, his attractive residence at Cap Ferrat, along the French retailer Riviera. His espionage activities during the First World War were known to the Germans. And, indeed, Goebbels had denounced his Ashenden stories as examples of British cynicism and brutality. In company with about five hundred other refugees, he traveled to England on a demanding and dangerous three-week journey on a collier from Cannes. After several months in London, Maugham left for the United States, where he spent the remaining war years, most of them in a house on Nelson's Doubleday's plantation at Yemassee, South Carolina.” Credit Robert L. Calder