A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Somerset Maugham, ‘For Willie, see page whatever it is Noël. 1939’. Indeed in the text Coward says ‘With Fallen Angels, On With the Dance, and The Vortex all running at once, I was in an enviable position. Everyone but Somerset Maugham said that I was a second Somerset Maugham, with the exception of a few who preferred to describe me as a second Sacha Guitry’. Spine label worn with some loss, back cover slightly spotted.
