MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. 1874-1965. Ashenden, or the British Agent. London William Heinemann Ltd., 1928.

The Library of David Lloyd, Part IMAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. 1874-1965.
Ashenden, or the British Agent. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1928. 8vo. Publishers blue cloth lettered in gilt and black, pictorial dust jacket. Light sunning to spine, wear to spine ends, slightly bumped to corners, toning and foxing to edges, jacket toned and slightly sunned to spine, with a few chips at corners showing minor restorations.FIRST EDITION, of Maugham's influential spy novel, really a collection of stories, often called the first modern spy fiction. Haycroft-Queen Cornerstone; Queen's Quorum 78; Stott A37a.