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MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. The Painted Veil. 8vo, original reddish-brown cloth, unrubbed gilt-lettered spine; first issue dust-jacket with advertisements on verso, light overall rubbing and finger-soiling, tapre reapirs on verso to spine panel head and top of front flap, dime-sized chip to top of rear panel; internally clean. New York: George H. Doran, 1925
first trade edition, first impression with publisher's monogram on verso of title. Published about a month earlier than the British edition. A signed, limited edition of 250 copies was also published in America at the same time as the trade edition but is more common. A superb copy in rare surviving dust jacket. Toole Stott A33b.
