The Explorer 1909 The Baker & Taylor Co.

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Record Number	MMC_N_E1909BT
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