Up At the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham [FIRST EDITION FACSIMILE] • 2000 • Book of the Month

Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham

FIRST EDITION FACSIMILE HARDCOVER [2000] DOUBLEDAY DORAN & COMPANY 

Rare 2000 Book of the Month Club exclusive featuring a beautiful modern reproduction of the original 1941 edition's dust jacket.  Not a true facsimile, more of a re-issue dressed up like the first edition.

Book is like new. 

Mild shelf wear to dust jacket.  Ships in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book itself is mint.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy.

On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days. But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger. And suddenly, her life is utterly, irrevocably altered.

For this stranger is a refugee of war, and he harbors more than one form of passion. Before morning, Mary will witness bloodshed, she will be forced to seek advice and assistance from an unsavory man, and she will have to face the truth about her own yearnings. Erotic, haunting, and maddeningly suspenseful, Up at the Villa is a masterful tale of temptation, and the capricious nature of fate.