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Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, USA, circa 1946. Unspecified Printing of the First (1st) Edition. Fine- condition. No Jacket. The novel was first published in 1944 by Doubleday, Doran & Company. Nelson Doubleday retired in 1946 and the company changed its name to Doubleday & Company, the name under which this copy was printed. In 1946, the film also came out. See below. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with lightly deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind. The binding is full black cloth, some unevenness of color to the top half of the front board, otherwise uniform throughout, with author's logo in bright red to the front board, repeated on the spine with bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked red endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. No Jacket. See the photos. 343 pages. 5 3/4"" x 8 1/2"". 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. The Doubleday edition is the true first trade edition, published in April, 1944, preceding the first UK edition by two months. 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.
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