The Razor's Edge

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The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1944 (stated on title page). Early Printing of a First Edition Thus. Very Good- condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, creamy white, tight but able to lie flat, straight and square, with deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full black pebble cloth, color uniform throughout except for edge wear, gilt title to spine which has slight loss of material at top edge and wear at bottom edge, white endpapers unmarked except for prior owners' names on front endpaper and front free endpaper, and bumped corners. No Dust Jacket. See photos. 250 pages. 5 3/4" x 8". The author's last great novel, written while he was living in the USA during World War 2 and first published by Doubleday in 1944, as Maugham was then living at Nelson Doubleday's house in New York State. This is a reprint edition also from 1944, as stated on the title page. The title comes from a line in the Katha Upanishad, an ancient Hindu text, and suggests the novel's interest in eastern philosophy and rejection of materialism. The novel was the basis for the 1946 film of the same name, starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, and Herbert Marshall. The movie was also remade in 1984, starring Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, Brian Doyle-Murray, and James Keach. N° de ref. del artículo 000704

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