SOMERSET MAUGHAM. — The Merry-Go-Round. A novel.

William Heinemann, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 398pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board with the author's gilt-stamped symbol. Some light wear to the backstrip ends and corner tips, and some soiling and finger marking to occasional leaf margins. A good copy. No dust wrapper. 3,000 copies were printed, but the book sold poorly and was remaindered to The Times Book Club, who issued it a year later with a new binding and title page. The failure of the novel soured Maugham's relationship with Heinemann and his first literary editor William Colles. Most uncommon in this correct first state binding. Stott. A7a., Good, No Jacket