Google Books: "From 1892, when he was 18, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. Part autobiographical, part confessional, this is a collection of Maugham's observations, confidences, aspirations and arbitrary jottings."

NY: Cosmopolitan from Hearst. 1949. First/limited Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth stamped in black/gilt. 

Binding broken with some repair. Priced accordingly.