THE VENTURE: An Annual of Art and Literature (Signed Copy - Maugham)

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY SOMERSET MAUGHAM. 4to. hardback with beige linen spine, black titles, and brown kraft paper-covered boards with black illustration to upper board. Decorative endpapers. 249pp., illustrated with 14 b/w wood-cuts and a 2 colour wood-cut as frontispiece (by artists including Charles S. Ricketts, Lucien Pissaro and E. Gordon Craig). "W. Somerset Maugham 23 October: 1960" in blue biro to title page. No other ownership markings or inscriptions. Some tanning to endpapers. Occasional light foxing. A few small splits to endpapers at front and inner hinges but binding still strong. Covers rather worn with chips to paper-bound edges of boards, edgewear and light soiling. Cloth at top and base of spine a little worn. Overall a GOOD+ COPY.