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Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944. "Written after much painstaking research into Eastern philosophy and mysticism, The Razor’s Edge is Maugham’s 20th-century manifesto for human fulfillment. In it he mercilessly satirizes American and European materialism, and holds up the figure of the spiritual seeker as a model for those searching for meaning in existence" (Stringer). It was twice adapted into film, first in 1946 starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney, and Herbert Marshall as Maugham and Anne Baxter as Sophie, and then a 1984 adaptation starring Bill Murray.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944. "Written after much painstaking research into Eastern philosophy and mysticism, The Razor’s Edge is Maugham’s 20th-century manifesto for human fulfillment. In it he mercilessly satirizes American and European materialism, and holds up the figure of the spiritual seeker as a model for those searching for meaning in existence" (Stringer). It was twice adapted into film, first in 1946 starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney, and Herbert Marshall as Maugham and Anne Baxter as Sophie, and then a 1984 adaptation starring Bill Murray.

Garden City : New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.,, 1944. First Edition after the printing of a limited edition of seven hundred and fifty copies. Clean in sound binding. VG+ in good dust jacket with few dj edge chips and tears. Original $2.75 price on front dust jacket flap. Small contemporary booksellers sticker on rear paste down endpaper. Internally fine. New clear, removable Brodart cover on dust jacket. . First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover Cloth. Very Good +/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Blakiston company, 1944. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Black cloth cover is slightly soiled, has very slight bumping to the tips of the boards, spine shows some wear and has minor crushing on the tops and bottoms. Interior pages show a minor amount of discoloration due to age, have a very small amount of foxing on the deckled edge in a couple of places but are clean, unmarked, and firmly attached to the spine. This book is in fine condition.