8vo. (Spotting throughout, some pages unopened.) Original white quarter cloth over blue boards [binding variant iii], spine lettered in gilt, uncut and partially unopened (minor soiling to lower portion of spine, additional soiling to upper portion of boards on both sides, rubbing, offsetting to endpapers); dust jacket (4-in. loss to spine panel, chipping along extremities, toning). Provenance: Craig V. Showalter (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION. The Land of the Blessed Virgin was Maugham's first travel book. It was originally published in an edition of 1,250 copies and comprises notes made during an eight-month stay in Seville in 1898. Stott A8. IN THE RARE DUST JACKET.