NMLP P-032460 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Magician

W. Somerset Maugham · William Heinemann (UK) · 1908

The magician Oliver Haddo is Maugham's caricature of Aleister Crowley, who was so incensed that he reviewed the book in Vanity Fair over the byline 'Oliver Haddo.' The Heinemann issue precedes the first US edition by a full year

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-032460 for "The Magician" by W. Somerset Maugham (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032460, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).