The Explorer 1909 The Baker & Taylor Co.
Record Number | MMC_N_E1909BT |
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Title | The Explorer |
Creator | W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) |
Contributor | J. Graham Coates (illustrator) |
Format | Print Book |
Genre / Form | Novel |
Publisher | New York : The Baker & Taylor Co. |
Date | January 1909 |
Language | English |
Physical Description | [Page facing title] frontispiece with tissue guard, p. [3] dedication to "My Dear Mrs. G. W. Steevens", pp. [7]–297 main text | 19 cm | hardback |
Identifier - Edition | First American and First Illustrated Edition |
Identifier - Cover Colour (Approximate) | #3E3517 (Thatch Green) |
Identifier - Dust Jacket | No dust jacket |
Identifier - Other Catalogues | Stott A10c |
Description - Characters |
Alec MacKenzie Lucy Allerton George Allerton Fred Allerton Dick Lomas Mrs. Julia Crowley Lady Alice Kelsey Robert Boulger Macinnery Walker Dr. Adamson Canon Spratte Butler Miller Mallins Carbery |
Description - Plot Summary |
A novel about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKenzie have to choose between grasping happiness that is their due and upholding a set of moral values that define themselves. Alec MacKenzie, the strong and world-changing explorer, finds himself above petty social conventions; Lucy Allerton, last descendent of an old family, finds herself unable to overcome family pride. Standing between them is the world and George Allerton, Lucy's rotten brother who not only plunges the good family name in mud, but also, unknowingly, seals the fate of the sister he much loves, even beyond his grave. |
Notes | The true first is the UK edition published by Heinemann in 1907. For some reason the price is sky high for this lesser work. The novel was based on the play in the same name, written in 1899 (Stott 50). An interesting fact that I got from the seller Harold B. Diamond is that there are two variations in this binding. He reported that at the bottom of the spine, he had seen the imprint of The Baker & Taylor Co. printed in all caps and in title case in different copies. One of the pages Stott registers as having an illustration is wrong. It should be facing p. 98 instead of p. 198. |
Subject | Colonies -- Fiction |
Cost |
US$60 in 2010 US$1.50 in 1909 |
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