Name: Cakes and Ale W Somerset Maughan First Edition USA Doubleday Hoyt Sherman Hardback
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Cakes and Ale W Somerset Maughan First Edition USA Doubleday Hoyt Sherman H
Cakes and Ale W Somerset Maughan First Edition USA Doubleday Hoyt Sherman H
Cakes and Ale W Somerset Maughan First Edition USA Doubleday Hoyt Sherman H
Cakes and Ale W Somerset Maughan First Edition USA Doubleday Hoyt Sherman H
Cakes and Ale W Somerset Maughan First Edition USA Doubleday Hoyt Sherman H
Cakes and Ale W Somerset Maughan First Edition USA Doubleday Hoyt Sherman H
Cakes and Ale W Somerset Maughan First Edition USA Doubleday Hoyt Sherman H
Cakes and Ale W Somerset Maughan First Edition USA Doubleday Hoyt Sherman H
Cakes and Ale W Somerset Maughan First Edition USA Doubleday Hoyt Sherman H

Cakes and Ale W Somerset Maughan First Edition USA Doubleday Hoyt Sherman Hardback
£47.99

1 in stock.

Detailed Condtion : Overall good considering age

Cakes and Ale by W Somerset Maughan

Hardback edition published by Doubleday New York 1930

First US edition First Printing

Sadly no dust jacket

Overall good considering age - gift inscription written neatly on the first leaf dated 1931

There is age toning to the pages and some foxing in places on the outside edge of the pages

Some wear to the corners - tiny area of board showing on the top corners

Some discolouration to the spine

Please look at the photos to see more detail - the photos also form part of the description

Of interest is the dedication it is written to "The Richards" from Hoyt & Katherine Sherman

Taken from Find A Grave Memorial Information:

Hoyt Sherman came from a distinguished line of famous Americans. He served bravely in war and he then engaged in the petroleum industry in South America.

Sherman was an officer in World War I in the famed Harlem Hellfighters. Post-war he moved to Venezuela and was a pioneer in the nation's growth in the gas and petroleum industries. He was the scion of a famous pioneer family who helped found Des Moines, Iowa. His namesake grandfather, Hoyt Sherman, worked for Abraham Lincoln and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Civil War as U.S. Army paymaster. His grandfather was the younger brother of judge John Sherman, the writer of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman. His first cousin was Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy, Jazz Age icon and close friend with F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Hoyt was born Charles Hoyt Sherman on 6 September 1896 in Chicago to Charles M. Sherman, an attorney, and Bertha Bartlett Sherman, descendant of Josiah Bartlett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

In October 1922 in Jamestown, Rhode Island, he wed Katherine Floyd-Jones, a St. Louis native, in a small family ceremony. They promptly left the country for Mexico and his new job.

In 1921 he entered the field of oil refinement and began a career that took him to far-flung oil fields. He joined the France & Canada Oil Transport Company in 1921 and was sent to Mexico as an engineer. He represented the New England Oil Refining Company of Boston (later acquired by Standard Oil Co.) in Tampico, Mexico, rising to general manager. In 1926 he began more than 30 years of residence in Caracas, Venezuela, with the Mene Grande Oil Company (100 percent of the shares were owned by Gulf). He started as an engineer and opened up new fields of exploration. He rose to president of the company, retiring in 1956. Before he returned to the U.S., the Venezuelan government decorated him with the order of Francisco de Miranda.

The couple had three children: Mary, born 1926 in Newport, Rhode Island; Katherine, born 1932 in Newport; and John, born 1934 in Venezuela.