VTG Folio Society Hardcover Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

London: The Folio Society, 2011. First Thus. Large octavo. 579 pp. Color illustrations. Illustrated boards; dark red endpapers. Summary: Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him. Condition: Vintage, preowned, missing the slipcase, some marking/writing by the owner