Tales from the East and West (Collector's Library of the World's Best-Loved Books)

xxi, 408 pp. Original navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Mitchell Hooks. A collection of fourteen stories by the author of Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, The Razor's Edge, etc., selected by Kenneth D. McCormick (Maugham's former editor at Doubleday). Includes: Preface; The Yellow Streak; The Letter; P. & O.; Rain; The Book-Bag; Neil MacAdam; The Hairless Mexican; The Alien Corn; The Colonel's Lady; The Three Fat Women of Antibes; The Facts of Life; The Kite; The Treasure; Jane.